renown

How To Use renown In A Sentence

• Men who give frequent feasts that are well attended generally gain renown for themselves. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
• The synagogue is renowned for its bright white exterior and lion-headed gargoyles, which are unusual because animal forms are rarely used in Jewish art.
• Now it's a purveyor of food of some local renown. Times, Sunday Times
• Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
• Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow.
• Among his other skills, he was renowned as an engraver both in wood and in copperplate.
• She became a protegee of German violinist Adolf Busch and also studied with renowned harpsichordist Wanda Landowska and guitarist Andres Segovia. Blanche Moyse, musical pioneer and peerless conductor of Bach choral works, dies at 101
• The 25,000 residents are culturally mixed and renowned for their friendliness.
• The products of that country's mechanical industry are renowned for their high quality.
• This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.