grow famous
Example Sentences
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He started not only to invite but to heed Batting Coach Billy DeMars' counsel and also began to grow famous.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for their Transactions and their History, he thinks “they purpose to grow famous, as the Turks do to gain Paradise, by treasuring up all the waste paper they meet with.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
I should like to grow famous, and make myself a name.”
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville
The downs, strictly so called, are no more; Lincolnshire farmers have been imported, and the long fresh slopes are sheep-walks no more, but grow famous turnips and barley.
From Tom Brown's School Day's by Hughes, Thomas
But, do you know, I'm afraid you've done something else than grow famous.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
