How to Use notoriously in a Sentence

notoriously

adverb
  • These hearty foods, both in taste and texture, can stand up to big flavors like tang and spice that can notoriously take over a dish.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 July 2023
  • Trump, who is notoriously thin-skinned, has been unable to escape the barb since.
    Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The pianist Glenn Gould notoriously hummed his way through it.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2023
  • The two have been married since 2010 and are notoriously protective of their kids.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • The rapper, whose made many major sports bets in his time, is notoriously bad at calling his shots.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • My work has given me insight into this notoriously stressful process, but not in the way that some might think.
    Rebekah Peeples, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The team hopes to summit toward the end of the month or early June, depending on the mountain's notoriously volatile weather.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • But there’s a dark side to all that potential upside: Tech stocks are notoriously volatile.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The matches were two of the most frustrating during a 2022 campaign when FCC lived and died within the league's notoriously thin margins.
    The Enquirer, 17 May 2023
  • But not a whole lot is known about the event, which is closed to the press and notoriously private, just like the boutique investment bank that hosts it (Allen & Co. did not respond to Fortune‘s request for comment).
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 July 2023
  • Even the late Steve Jobs—the genius and notoriously thankless manager who co-founded Apple—in Gates’ opinion, did the same.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • And then there’s the matter of Valderrama’s Howard Stern interview — which, even by Stern standards, was (and is) notoriously gross.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The link between an appetite for risk and testosterone is well-established, and thus the places where people play poker are still notoriously bro-ish.
    Time, 24 July 2023
  • Local reporters aren’t the only ones who have noticed the difference in a notoriously gruff coach.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The median age of a real estate agent skews older than that of workers in most industries, and those in the sector are notoriously tech-averse.
    John Kell, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Nonfiction has been notoriously absent from the competition lineup in the past, and the ones that play in out-of-competition slots tend not to be very good.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • Black holes, arguably the strangest objects in the known universe, are notoriously difficult to detect.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • The anger fuels engagement, but how this translates to real-world impact is notoriously hard to pin down.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Video games are designed for pure fun, but the community around those games can be notoriously toxic.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The band is one of the most unlikely, outsider inductees into the notoriously insider Rock Hall.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 May 2023
  • Hawaii is also known to have notoriously apathetic voters with some of the lowest voter turnout in the country since the early 2000s.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Nicaragua is much closer than Bolivia and avoids the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap in Panama.
    Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The film festival's parade of dresses is notoriously the most glamorous of the season.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023
  • Yet Magana had no clue how to gain a foothold in the notoriously shady music industry.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Elephants are notoriously difficult to count across such a wide area.
    Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And recycling plastic is notoriously tricky—what do any of those little numbers even mean on the bottom of a container?
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • Most pre-election polls, which have been notoriously unreliable, gave Milei a slight lead and put Massa in second place.
    TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The line has taken the industry by storm, doing away with cliche cruise staples like main dining rooms, large buffets, and notoriously small staterooms.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Wool is notoriously prickly, and many synthetic fabrics are too abrasive against the skin.
    Karen Pallarito, Health, 18 Dec. 2023
  • These storms originate in Canada and are notoriously moisture-starved and speedy.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023

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