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How to use notoriety in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Notoriety means an infamous or notorious condition or reputation. Example: “Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.”

Examples of notoriety by meaning

nounAn infamous or notorious condition or reputation.

  • This seems to me to be a reasonable request, and I will try to explain to you what it is that has given me this false notoriety; so please give me your attention.1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The...

More sentences with notoriety

  • Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.From the entry dislike
  • A minibus van, often numberless and dubbed the 'drone', gained notoriety for kidnaps and disappearances.2022 October 20, Albert K Awedoba, Andreas Mehler, Benedikt Kamski, David Sebudubudu, Africa Yearbook, volume 18, →ISBN, page 419. From the entry drone
  • They called it MGM, an acronym quickly acquiring the notoriety of FGM.2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 286. From the entry MGM
  • But I wonder if Soulsfeng will ever reach the notoriety that David the rep seller did.2018 October 1, Alice Hines, “Meeting David, the God of Counterfeit Sneakers”, in Highsnobiety, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2024. From the entry rep
  • Terrorists use violence as a pseudoevent to gain notoriety and legitimacy through media coverage of their acts.2005, James A. Johnson, Gerald R. Ledlow, Mark A. Cwiek, Community Preparedness and Response to Terrorism, page 66. From the entry pseudoevent
  • The island of Bougainville had its brief moment of international notoriety more than a decade ago.1986 October 18, Barbara Crossette, “THE TALK OF KIETA; A 'Garden of Eden' in the South Pacific Is Resisting the Fruits of Television”, in…. From the entry Bougainvillean
  • Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety.2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry dollar
  • Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Brat Pack
  • And the prospect of genteel notoriety for their unborn heirs is the source of the Mob's drive for WASPization.1971, Chicago Journalism Review, volume 4, page 14. From the entry WASPization
  • Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after.1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. From the entry jazz
  • Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties.1917, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Recollections Literary and Political, page 55. From the entry Mrs. Leo Hunter
  • Navy fan became so "horse famous" (the act of gaining notoriety as a fan icon), that he has now joined the cast.2015 October 30, Kevin W. Martin, “Masculinity, Marines, and My Little Pony”, in Pacific Standard. From the entry horse famous
  • One clopper recently gained quite a bit of notoriety on the Internet by revealing just how far his obsession with the show had gone.2013, Katrina Gardner, "Big Boys, Little Ponies", The Express (Las Positas College), Volume 24, Number 19, 5 April 2013, page 4. From the entry clopper
  • It was, however, as Charles Darwin's alter ego, an attack dog for the theory of evolution, that Huxley gained his greatest notoriety.2001, Mark Jaffe, The Gilded Dinosaur, page 146. From the entry attack dog
  • Those who received the poison pen letters were not willing to court the notoriety that would follow the prosecution of the case.1915 December 18, “Poison Pen Writer Released on Bail”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Aug 2010, page 7. From the entry poison-pen letter
  • Featuring a sagely captain, a first officer with aerodynamic lobes, riveting adventures and special effects unheard of for its time, the show gained unbelievable notoriety across the globe.1997 December, Tim Royal, “Starfleet Academy”, in Steve Bauman, editor, Computer Games Strategy Plus, Rochester, Vt.: Strategy Plus, Inc.…. From the entry sagely

Meaning of notoriety

  1. noun An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.

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Questions about notoriety in a sentence

How do you use notoriety in a sentence?
Notoriety is used as a noun. For example: “Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.”
What is a short sentence with notoriety?
“Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety.”
What does notoriety mean?
Notoriety means an infamous or notorious condition or reputation.

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