How to Use infamous in a Sentence
infamous
adjective- He committed an infamous crime.
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Monday is a chance to slay some of their infamous medal round demons.
—Corey Pronman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
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No, not the ones from the last three years but the infamous ones from all the decades gone by?
—Roshan Radhakrishnan, Quartz India, 26 Aug. 2019
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Banks isn't the only star to take on an infamous true crime role.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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The same goes for those capri pants which have made their infamous comeback.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 May 2024
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Then came the infamous Art Park deal.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 22 June 2026
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But Burmese pythons may be the most infamous invaders of all.
—Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
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Mahomes did so on X and shared a video of that infamous first pitch.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
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Above is the infamous plane shadow near the bottom of the screen.
—Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2020
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Cross the bay by ferry as the infamous prison emerges, perched on its rocky outcrop.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Here, the stories behind some of the most infamous videos you weren't meant to see.
—The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 19 Mar. 2018
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What about the episode concerning a tape from the infamous dossier?
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
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The grounds have a tennis court, a guest house, a pool, and that infamous grotto.
—Megan Friedman, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2017
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Those infamous words are the hallmarks of a corrupt state.
—David French, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
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Those aren’t the ones that have made the company infamous, though.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
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The even more infamous bathtub scene.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
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And in this episode, viewers saw an infamous tribal swap.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2026
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The now-infamous text exchange matters for all three.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
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The [expletive]-eating scene in that movie is still infamous 50 years later.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
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Even the infamous first pancake was a winner.
—The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
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The end of the film sees a gravestone, as the infamous assassin is laid to rest next to his wife.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
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The movie was infamous — denounced by the pope and by Adolf Hitler.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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The real question, and what makes this diet so infamous, is the wine.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 13 Mar. 2026
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Her infamous late nights bled into late mornings.
—Brooke Blumberg, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
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Lennon's death is remembered as one of the most infamous celebrity killings of all time.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
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One of the most telling aspects of Noem’s makeover was also one of the most infamous.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 25 Apr. 2025
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Then the figure said its infamous chilling words.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
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Hunter told me that the infamous cell-phone video of the incident had filled her with anger and disgust.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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In the vid, Gabriel shares what was going down behind the scenes of that now infamous tweet.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 23 Aug. 2018
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In fact, cheating in sports has a long and infamous history.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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