renown

Example Sentences

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He began gaining renown as a lawyer in an era when asbestos cases were swamping the U.S. courts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

"If ski resorts in Japan had stayed the way they used to be, they would never have gained such worldwide renown," said Hiroshi Hasegawa, director of a local real estate agency.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Whatever the level of his renown, Akangbe Ogun lived as a simple man, among the ordinary people in Osogbo.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

The announcement in the paper states that Hector Bowen, better known as Prospero the Enchanter, entertainer and stage magician of great renown, died of heart failure in his home on the fifteenth of March.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern