How to Use notorious in a Sentence

notorious

adjective

• The coach is notorious for his violent outbursts.
• Some of the most notorious winter storms along the East Coast have been nor'easters.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
• One of the islands — Smuttynose — was the scene of a notorious murder in the 1870s.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
• The first thing to know is that Kate is notorious for putting in serious work in the gym.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
• The road where Tiger Woods crashed has been notorious for decades.
  — Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• So much so that the last person to do it was the notorious lefty Ronald Reagan, with the mass amnesty of 1986.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• And Gene was notorious for kind of welching on the bets.
  — Janelle Ash, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
• Just a mile offshore, the White Ship struck the notorious Quilleboeuf rock, keeled over and foundered in the frigid sea.
  — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• This time of year, when the depths of winter are on the horizon, are notorious for strong winds like this, Lutz said.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2021
• To have the most notorious crew, like 1UP or Berlin Kidz, trust us with their anonymity?
  — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
• That the Red Army did next to nothing to assist them is notorious.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• The boss was one of the most notorious human traffickers in Africa.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The most notorious of these raiders was the CSS Alabama.
  — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• This was the cruise in 2011, which became kind of notorious for burying Osama bin Laden at sea.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• Historians say the most notorious slavers used their wealth to fund the bank or staff it.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Game Boy was notorious for puzzle games, most of which were pretty dull.
  — PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2022
• The trial pulled the curtain back on rifts within one of the LAPD’s most storied — and notorious — units.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
• The show is about a mission to bring down notorious Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
• Most people dread going to the post office, where the lines are notorious.
  — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020
• The bathroom is notorious for soap scum due to the amount of moisture, soap, and other products used.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
• Some fabrics, like linen and cotton, though great for the warmer weather, are notorious for wrinkling at the drop of a hat.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
• Connecticut is notorious for having a lot of smog — some of the worst levels in the country, in fact.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• For starters, much of it is outside Canton Zurich, in an area notorious for its tax breaks.
  — Adam Graham, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2022
• Footage showing abuse in the country's notorious Evin prison has leaked out.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 27 June 2022
• This culture was set in part by the most notorious coaches of the modern era: Béla and Márta Károlyi.
  — Kelly Jones, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2024
• Our dad is being kept in Managua, in a notorious prison known as El Chipote.
  — Time, 21 Sep. 2021
• The biggest concern for an investor in one of these ETFs is the notorious volatility in the price of bitcoin.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Use small jigs with short tails because the fish are notorious short-strikers.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• Transfer deadline day is notorious for its frenetic nature, with clubs scrambling to complete deals at the very last minute and staff and fans alike staying up until the early hours.
  — Leon Imber, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
• The history of the semiconductor industry, which is notorious for its boom-to-bust cycles, is helping to keep a lid on Nvidia’s valuation.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025