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How to use renown in a sentence

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Most bands gain local renown but struggle to win respect beyond their own borders.
With nearly 10 years of work in the region, Mr Sharratt has won renown as an unflappable lawyer with a passion for the heat of the court room.
The special occasion gave guests the opportunity to meet the director, singers and dancers of the world renown opera.
They added to their renown by beating handsomely the professional crews that they competed against.
For all his renown as an economist, he was something of an outsider in the economics profession.
One chronologer, the Huguenot scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger, won renown for his reformation of the traditional approach to chronology.
This is all the more important as some Canadian researchers have established their careers there and have considerable renown.
Over the centuries, such styles gained renown and were eventually taught to non-monks, spreading over China, then all of Asia.
He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support.
One can't help but suspect that the motive behind the Italian researcher's efforts is rooted in gaining glory and renown rather than altruism.
Crazy Horse achieved renown in intertribal warfare on the northern Great Plains and in conflict with the U.S. Army.
Despite a bulging schedule of films and the presence of film-makers of renown, a pall hung over last year's Local Heroes Film Festival.
In its fourth year, the event continues to gain renown for the number and quality of locally-made patchwork quilts on display.
It can bring you prestige, renown, and a more lasting fame than Wonderbra commercials.
Missing the point of this display entirely, my companion suggests another vegetarian restaurant of renown.
Several Irish Americans who have won renown in the military field have been mentioned.
So it's always shocking to see a celebrity, a person of that kind of renown, brought low.
Perform this task with perfection and you will bring honour and renown to your village.
And while she had achieved renown on both sides of the Atlantic, southerners scarcely knew her work.
As a violinist he made many international tours, winning renown for his playing of Bach and of contemporary works.
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Examples from Classical Literature
John Jenkin, a schoolmaster in Pembrokeshire, was a conjuror of renown in that part of Wales.
The gist of their account is that he was born in a Brahman family near Gaya and early obtained renown as a disputant.
There is no disturbing renown to be got among the cabins of the Flintshire hills.
He will keep the discourse of the men of renown, and will enter in amidst the subtilties of parables.
Glauco, the amorous fisherman, in order to obtain his Scilla, braves the sea and seeks renown and riches.
The inheritors of unfulfilled renown Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought Far in the unapparent.
One of them, Draco the Great, attained great renown as a man of war.
Shakespeare owes the greater part of his renown to Mary Fitton.
He was succeeded by a preacher, Ancillon, of renown in church affairs.
The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.
The indifference of this Anacreon of music to renown is worthy of remark.
Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage.
As for me, I will carry your renown as far as I roam over the earth to the well-placed this thing is true.
His renown as an illustrator remains high as ever in France.
He had dreamt of stark battles and of renown that would be hardily won.
He becomes famous in his own university, his renown spreads to other universities.
Then there was General Gates, who afterward gained great renown at Saratoga, and lost it again at Camden.
Of less renown are the ales of Wallonia's other Trappist breweries, Orval and Rochefort, the latter's being the most rare of the Wallonian Trappists.
Until such a one chose to make some movement, no deeds in arms, no natural gifts, nor any renown as an orator, would have justified the slightest interruption.
They had just maintained gloriously, at Dogger Bank, their old maritime renown.
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