How to Use stardom in a Sentence

stardom

noun
  • The Writing's on the Wall that launched them to stardom.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • At the height of his stardom in the 80s and 90s, MJ held the whole world in a chokehold.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The path to that desired stardom starts with the ball in his hands.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • But Sweeney still has to keep up the trappings of stardom.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • At the time, the band had achieved rock stardom after the release of Songs About Jane.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • What is the best thing about success and stardom, and what are the downsides?
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Like Mitchell-Clarke, Pawlak had dreams of movie stardom.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
  • All the peaks and the valleys that came with rock & roll stardom and my life in one of the world’s biggest bands.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • Slate took a circuitous path to both love and comedic stardom.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
  • There’s the hungry young artist who seems marked for stardom long before the rest of the world has caught on.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
  • He’s witnessed the cons as well as the pros of stardom while spending time with Bridges.
    Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • If this were a fairy tale, NFL stardom would have been the next chapter.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
  • Usher related the themes of the project to the challenges of his own stardom.
    Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The 24-year-old went from late-night rap battles in their living room to the cusp of rap stardom.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Clearly, their love has stood the test of time, from teenage romance all the way to NFL stardom.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 13 July 2024
  • In the cover story, Julien Baker spoke to us about the group’s rise to stardom.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His rise to stardom came at a time when the national mood in Japan was at a low.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 22 Jan. 2025
  • But the pressure of stardom took a toll on Aaron's childhood.
    Katherine Lam, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Bowie at this point is riding high on rock and roll stardom.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And finally: Was this the greatest year of pop stardom that any rock band had in the 2000s?
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Chappell Roan’s rise to stardom has been 10 years in the making.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • And now, the specter of imminent full-fledged pop stardom.
    Jim Greer, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Scherzinger first acquired stardom as a member of the pop and dance group The Pussycat Dolls.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Cody Johnson is the one of the quintet who is the newest to real stardom.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Despite reaching the height of rock stardom over the past 22 years, the Black Keys have rarely strayed too far from their roots.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And now that she's gained true-crime stardom from the documentary, their grief has been compounded.
    Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
  • But just a few years after the band reached global stardom, things fell apart.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2026
  • Its social media stardom stems in part from the plating.
    Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Robert Pattinson has spent the last decade-plus treating movie stardom like some kind of elaborate public dare.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
  • The Wild need to pounce at the height of his stardom.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 26 May 2026

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