world-famous

adjective

: famous throughout the world
a world-famous scientist

Examples of world-famous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web From its world-famous museums like The Met and MoMA, to stellar shopping on Fifth Avenue and in Soho, to many of the country’s most innovative restaurants, a vacation to NYC can satisfy nearly every type of traveler. Juliet Izon, Glamour, 3 May 2024 With world-famous restaurants, top hotels, and oodles of investment, Charleston has the obvious upper hand. Katie Kelly Bell, Robb Report, 2 May 2024 Make reservations in advance To avoid disappointment, be sure to make restaurant reservations well in advance — particularly for world-famous restaurants like Pujol, Contramar, Quintonil, and Máximo Bistrot, which can book up months in advance. Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2024 Before her world-famous relationship with Travis Kelce that debuted last year, Swift had a long-term romance with British actor Joe Alwyn, and then a relatively short rebound with Matty Healy, frontman of the 1975. William Earl, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024 Customize your own Eames lounger, gawk at buildings by world-famous architects and hang out in a model home full of iconic designs In the countryside where Germany meets France and Switzerland, modernism superfans can live out their most indulgent aesthetic fantasies. Gabe Bullard, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024 On Saturday, Joel Cauchi was identified as the assailant who carried out a knife attack in the Westfield Bondi Junction mall near world-famous Bondi Beach, leaving six people dead and more than a dozen injured. Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 15 Apr. 2024 Whereas Abramović was ready to embrace the life of a world-famous art star—with its requisite duties and attendant inconveniences—Ulay longed to live a more itinerant and anarchist existence. Michael I. Norton, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024 Instead, your family will be treated to an old-timey experience filled with world-famous Mackinac Island fudge and days spent biking around the island, taking a ferry under the Mackinac Bridge, or cruising around the coast by kayak. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2024

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“World-famous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world-famous. Accessed 17 May. 2024.

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