Renown

//ɹɪˈnaʊn//

"Renown" in a Sentence (16 examples)

She has international renown as a painter.

She's a violinist of some renown.

Until now the city of Bilbao has been characterized as a place of international renown.

He gained renown through the novel.

There, ministering justice, she presides, / and deals the law, and from her throne of state, / as choice determines or as chance decides, / to each, in equal share, his separate task divides. / Sudden, behold a concourse. Looking down, / his late-lost friends AEneas sees again, / Segestus, brave Cloanthus of renown, / Antheus and others of the Trojan train, / whom the black squall had scattered o'er the main, / and driven afar upon an alien strand.

"Who knows not Troy, th' AEneian house of fame, / the deeds and doers, and the war's renown / that fired the world? Not hearts so dull and tame / have Punic folk; not so is Phoebus known / to turn his back upon our Tyrian town."

"Himself, a foe, oft lauded Troy's renown, / and claimed the Teucrian sires as kinsmen of his own."

An ancient city totters to her fall, / time-honoured empress and of old renown; / and senseless corpses, through the city strown, / choke house and temple.

If you wish to acquire renown, leave your bed early.

Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

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She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]

And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]

[…] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]

There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.

[…] one day local fame would become world renown […]

[…] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;

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