RENOWNED in a Sentence

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de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art.

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 Meanings and Examples of RENOWNED
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renowned
 a.  famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  I am Ulysses son of Laertes, renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety, so that my fame ascends to heaven.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
2  '"'Come here,' they sang, 'renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to our two voices.'
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
3  These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
4  Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
5  Regina's renowned millinery establishment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  He was received by the French officer in advance with the usual formalities, and immediately accompanied to a distant marquee of the renowned soldier who led the forces of France.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  He had not yet spoken, and something consolatory and instructive was expected from so renowned a chief on an occasion of such interest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
9  You were thrown, by some surprising accident, on this shore, renowned for its hospitality, seized immediately, and charged with murder.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  Or, as is more thy nature, be a scholar and a sage among the wisest and the most renowned of the cultivated world.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
11  Thou art ever my better angel, Waldemar," said the Prince; "and when I have such a chancellor to advise withal, the reign of John will be renowned in our annals.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  He closed his book hastily; and was at once ushered into the imposing presence of the renowned Mr. Fang.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Aeneas of Troy, renowned in goodness as in arms, goes down to meet his father in the deep shades of Erebus.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
14  And now they trod those utmost fields where the renowned in war have their haunt apart.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
15  de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
Example Sentence:
1  In Europe, the French are renowned for their cooking.
2  A renowned Tibetan lama pointed out that Westerners think people in the East tend to be more introspective and less concerned with material success.
3  The magician demonstrated his renowned legerdemain.
4  Builders are renowned for wolf-whistling at any woman who walks by.
5  Neither nation is renowned for turning the other cheek.
6  The British are renowned as a nation of dog lovers.
7  He had hoped that he might give him some proofs of the great accomplishments which he possessed in occult things and in this way add to his own glory and renown.
8  For many years an unheralded researcher, Barbara McClintock gained international renown when she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
9  Short is my date, but deathless my renown.