How to Use famous in a Sentence

famous

adjective
  • In that game and near the end of the contest, Reese threw some of Clark’s famous trash talk back in her face.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Storm's pics were getting tons of love from her famous friends.
    Emily J. Shiffer, Women's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In 2022, Billie Eilish wore a corseted look of her own for the famous Met Gala.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The race is famous with runners for including a special tour that highlights the best of the city.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • Douglas Fairbanks is one of the most famous people in Hollywood and the world.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The famous Crystal Palace dinosaur exhibit is all the rage.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Which became a whole other thing when this became a famous flop.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • More out there to experience, more to encounter, more mystery, more wonder, more to the most famous street in the movies than what meets the eye.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Coco Chanel is one of the world’s most famous fashion icons, but her legacy has rarely been tackled on screen.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The exclusive build is available in one of two special colors and comes with a large rear wing inspired by the most famous Supra of them all—the MkIV from the mid-’90s.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 June 2023
  • But the former rail line is most famous for the circus that traveled the 200-plus miles from Baraboo to Milwaukee.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
  • When one falls in love with a patient who is a famous actor, the umbilicus that had sustained them all their lives is pierced for the first time.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • With its towering dome, St. Paul’s Cathedral is one of the most famous structures in all of London.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At the Con, some were as famous as the Bravo stars themselves, their presence causing mini-floods.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Singer’s most famous gamble eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.
    Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
  • Hoda Kotb says her two daughters have no idea just how famous their mother is.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Khaled and Mustafa were among the ones shot, but Hosam, then famous for his satirical short stories, managed to escape.
    Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Utah’s Mighty 5 national parks are famous among park lovers.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • The Gathering is the most famous type of this game style, which is also known as collectible card games, expandable card games and so on.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Sylvester Stallone is one of the most famous actors of his generation.
    Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 19 June 2023
  • But websites featuring famous people can lead to a surge in other kinds of nudes.
    Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Right next to the famous five-point intersection, locals line up for fresh loaves, coffee, and pastries to go.
    Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Bella Thorne saw some fellow famous faces with during her trip to the British Grand Prix earlier this month.
    Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • A lot of others will go for retro costumes, and maybe emulating the most famous Barbie.
    Ella Ceron, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There were all the famous men in Paris, the couturiers, and the silhouette looked very different—very sculpted and very structured.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The project underlines the relevance of animation to arguably the most famous person in the world.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • If that wasn’t intriguing enough, the stainless-steel sports car, which is famous for its role in the Back to the Future trilogy, only has 977 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In Eng’s novelistic version, Maugham is famous enough that even one of the servants has read his work.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The team believes it may have been built to align with the sun on the solstices, similar to southern England’s most famous stone circle, Stonehenge.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • This model is emblematic of the modern Panerai brand and was made famous on the silver screen on the wrist of the legendary Sylvester Stallone in the 1996 film Daylight.
    Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2023

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