repute

Example Sentences

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Practically every working actor of some repute has offhandedly mentioned their interest in directing a film at one time or another.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

An opera company’s stature, and even an art capital’s cultural repute, can rise or fall depending upon its ability to mount a “Ring” cycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

Brightline argued that Virgin had “ceased to constitute a brand of international high repute, largely because of matters related to the pandemic.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“Hardly a day passes without him being invited to visit the studios of painters of repute, or people come to him,” Theo writes to Ma.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman