Famously

"Famously" in a Sentence (15 examples)

What part of Betty Grable's anatomy was famously insured for $1,000,000?

We got along famously.

A four-year-old American tourist was disappointed to realize that, in fact, the Sichuan province is not entirely made of spicy beef, in spite of its famously piquant cuisine.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted, the rich are different from you and me.

We get along famously.

They got along famously.

Boris Becker once famously held from 0-40 down by serving 5 aces in a row.

The Chinese emperor who oversaw the building of the Great Wall famously used his power to stop published information. Qin Shi Huang ordered the burning of thousands of books on subjects he wanted to keep from the people. He even had hundreds of scholars executed for refusing to give up their book collections.

During the Middle Ages, that city famously had seven walls around it.

Tom was famously convicted of trying to steal Princess Diana's lap dog on a number of separate occasions.

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President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century. The word is famously absent from the Constitution, but it was also relatively absent from the printed texts of the decade in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted, and more broadly from the revolutionary period overall.

Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton famously put "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women in high office, so there are a number of corporate executives who are doing the same for the lavender ceiling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. It's just a matter of time before they are promoted to the top job.

She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.

The new roommates got on famously.

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