FAMOUS in a Sentence

Learn FAMOUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
183 example sentences for FAMOUS, such as:
1. He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.
2. Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.
3. The art galleries of Florence are very famous.
4. She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture.
5. This town is famous for its beautiful buildings.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FAMOUS
famous
 a.  widely known and esteemed
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  Why, you--you must be the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about--the blockade runner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  I claimed them first, said Tony, beginning to scowl at his brother; and Melanie, fluttering with fear at the possibility of one of the famous Fontaine quarrels, interposed and made peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  He's got a lot of Perry prints of famous pictures in his office.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  She was not used to hotels; she remembered with jealousy how often Juanita Haydock talked of the famous hotels in Chicago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The Duluth delegation had brought their famous Beaver amateur band, in Zouave costumes of green velvet jacket, blue trousers, and scarlet fez.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
7  But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
8  Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favourite.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
9  Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to be seen in this famous town.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
10  The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
11  He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
12  Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern's famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
13  Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
14  But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
15  Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly juicy and nourishing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Beavers are famous for their skill in building dams across streams.
2  The street is named after the famous South African leader, Nelson Mandela.
3  When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.
4  The art galleries of Florence are very famous.
5  She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture.
6  Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.
7  This town is famous for its beautiful buildings.
8  Madame Curie was the only famous woman scientist in the world.
9  A certain ruler in the Middle Ages was famous for poisoning her guests with chemicals put into their drinks.
10  He is internationally famous as a character actor.
11  As a famous star, she never highhatted anybody, even the common people.
12  They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court.
13  He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.
14  Her dream to enter the famous university came true.
15  By steady effort, she landed up as a famous scholar.