How to Use famously in a Sentence

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• The executive famously insisted on riding the bus to work every day.
• The three troubadours first famously shared the stage at the first Farm Aid benefit concert in 1985.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• In the Antarctic Ocean, orcas famously create waves to wash seals off ice floes.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• At the beginning of the ground invasion in Iraq in 2003, David Petraeus, of course, famously asked the question, tell me how this ends.
  — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2023
• The icon — plastered on posters all over her room, his face emblazoned on her T-shirts — had famously been dead for decades.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Mormons are famously clean-living, which is both a great good and much scorned by slobs who can’t keep their lives in order.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• And even the famously more affordable beer has been hit by inflation, as sales are down.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The two movies, both of which are nominated for best picture, famously opened in theaters on the same day in July 2023.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• Best of all, the property is a brisk walk to the beach and enjoys views of the Santa Monica mountains, the ocean and a long strip of the famously scenic Malibu coastline.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
• As Cliff Clavin famously said in the series finale of the classic sitcom Cheers, the meaning of life just might be comfortable shoes.
  — Robin Raven, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Swift famously wore this matte pencil lipstick to the 2014 Met Gala, which was shared in a photo posted by Karlie Kloss at the time.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2024
• Celine Dion famously said that her frozen embryos in New York are children waiting to be born.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The kidcore wellingtons, which were famously worn by Princess Diana’s toddlers in the 90s, are comforting in more ways than one.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 23 June 2023
• The females are famously protective of their young, and the species as a whole is widely regarded as the most dangerous of all the large African megafauna.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• There’s a mystery theme going on in this ad that suits Ortega, famously the star of Wednesday.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2024
• The 1989 era was famously defined by the special guests that would grace the stage during its accompanying tour.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
• Like many people, she’d been alarmed by the reports of these famously tough athletes whose very toughness had been their undoing.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
• In general, though, Chase got along famously with his new bosses.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
• Vultures, their fans insist, rival the famously brainy parrots and corvids in the use of tools and artful maneuvers to secure their needs and desires.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• And Oppenheimer famously hated the play and told the Washington Post that the play had made his life into a tragedy when in fact the security hearing was, had been a farce.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• When the kids were young, their dad famously left their mom for Elizabeth Taylor, shining an intense spotlight on their lives.
  — Maria Mercedes Lara, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
• And every five Earth years or so, Mars famously experiences dust storms that engulf the entire planet for weeks or months at a time.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Gawker, which launched in 2002, famously had an office leaderboard that showed which writer had the best-trafficked story; bonuses were tied to views.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
• The late economist famously bet doomsayer Paul Ehrlich in 1980 that the prices for five metals wouldn’t increase over a decade, even if the world’s population grew.
  — WSJ, 26 July 2023
• For a reference image, look no further than Katie Holmes, who was famously papped wearing a cashmere bra and matching cardigan from the brand in 2019.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2023
• That means plenty of tech job interviews are happening every day around here — and those are famously tricky.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• In early September, a permit was approved to tear down the home on 5th Helena Drive where Monroe famously lived and died.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Royal Ascot was famously Queen Elizabeth's favorite event, and this year was the first time the royals attended since her passing.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 23 June 2023
• Salvador Dalí famously designed a lobster that was printed on one of her most iconic dresses.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Kardashian, of course, famously lashed out at Woods for kissing Thompson.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024