FAME in a Sentence

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1. Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.
2. The city is famed for its scenic spots.
3. Her chief fame rests on her several films.
4. He never reaches after personal fame and gain.
5. The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAME
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fame
 n.  favorable public reputation; great renown
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  the writer, scraping in the dunghill for sixpenny fame.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  And the lips that shall refuse to pledge me to his well-earned fame, I term false and dishonoured, and will so maintain them with my life.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  And well and chivalrous did De Bracy that day maintain the fame he had acquired in the civil wars of that dreadful period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  The former feeling gradually gave way before the endearments of his ward, and the pride which he could not help nourishing in the fame of his son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  Clifford was making strides into fame, and even money.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  She wanted nothing more than what she'd got; only she wanted to get ahead with what she'd got: Clifford, the stories, Wragby, the Lady-Chatterley business, money and fame, such as it was.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  It was the other world he wanted to capture, the world of literature and fame; the popular world, not the working world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The fact was that Yeobright's fame had spread to an awkward extent before he left home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
12  "It is bad when your fame outruns your means," said the Spanish Jesuit Gracian.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
13  An individual whose fame spreads three or four thousand yards in the time taken by the fame of others similarly situated to travel six or eight hundred, must of necessity have something in him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
14  Possibly Clym's fame, like Homer's, owed something to the accidents of his situation; nevertheless famous he was.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
15  Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  He never reaches after personal fame and gain.
17  The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
18  Rufus Sewell leapt to fame after his lead performance as Will Ladislaw in the BBC's production of Middlemarch.
19  Her chief fame rests on her several films.
20  His first novel did not establish his fame as a writer, but second one did.
21  His fame as a poet did not come until after his death.
22  His is a glamorous version of the American immigrant dream, arriving as a mere Austrian bodybuilder before finding fame, fortune and wife.
23  Though Maria Montessori gained fame for her innovations in pedagogy, it took years before the methods were common practice in American.
24  He was already a hugely popular performer before the world music brought him fame in Europe and the United States.
25  Most Americans equate success with wealth and fame.
26  Mother Teresa earned fame and accolades over a lifetime spent working with the poor and the sick, and with orphans, lepers and AIDS patients, first in the slums of Kolkata, India, and then in many other countries.
27  Racket throwing tennis star John McEnroe was famed for his displays of tempestuous temperament.
28  The fountains of Rome are famed for their architectural beauty.
29  The city is famed for its scenic spots.
30  Some, such as Grinnell, were fortunate enough to parlay their alumni connections into access to top venture funds such as Sequoia Capital, famed for its winning Silicon Valley investments