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
• 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
• The church was notorious for luring in young industry strivers; one of Scott’s good friends had joined.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• In recent years, it has been stoked by demands by Democrats and others for social-justice reforms in the wake of notorious cases of police brutality.
  — Susan Page, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
• As first reported by 404 Media, users on the notorious message board 4chan got a hold of users' sensitive data — including government IDs, which had at one point been used as a verification tool by the app — and leaked it elsewhere online.
  — Alana Wise, NPR, 2 Aug. 2025