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famous English

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famous

If a person is famous, then many people know the name of that person. There might be things written about the person in the newspaper, or the person might be on television. Judy Garland was a famous singer. After I write this book I'll be famous, and then many people will want to talk to me. The ballet was made famous when it was produced in Paris.

famous

(= celebrated, famed, illustrious, notable, renowned) widely known and esteemed a famous actor a celebrated musician a famed scientist an illustrious judge a notable historian a renowned painter

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Simple sentences

Yoshino is a place famous for its cherry blossoms.
I have a friend whose father is a famous pianist.
Detroit is famous for its car industry.
I have a friend whose father is a famous novelist.
Lake Towada is famous for its beauty.
He became a famous actor.
He became famous.
I have to -- oh God oh great -- remember such a string of numbers, great famous Archimedes, help the suffering, give him the power, let him recite by heart those famous, and yet for us irritating, ah, numbers of Ludolph!
Who are the famous musicians in your country?
Those are very famous people.
Tom became famous overnight.
Tom is a world-famous conductor.
Everyone wants to meet you. You're famous!
What famous songs do you wish you had composed, and why?
In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer.
There are many famous old buildings in Kyoto.
With regards to music, he is one of the most famous critics.
London is famous for its fog.
Picasso is a famous artist.
Lots of famous people come here.
Many famous artists live in New York.
You should visit Kyoto, which is famous for its old temples and shrines.
Kyoto is famous for its old temples.
The leader of the party is a famous scientist.
London, where I live, used to be famous for its fog.
Rome is famous for its ancient architecture.
Born in better times, he would have become famous.

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Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.
Was it for some great achievement? Did you want to become famous as the man who managed to wipe out the entire Yoshioka clan?
Because you can only get in if you're dressed as a famous couple from history.
Scenes after old drawings that are in the famous Brera library (Milan).
Reduction from the famous novel by A. Robida.
The only son of Esfir, Sandro, inherited his mother's talent and became a famous musician.
The famous Prince Zsbrschosky- by the way, a charming gentleman, and not without means - is giving a large ball to which we are invited.
These scenes are often found on famous Witch Sabbath pictures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Today it is not the Devil, but rather a famous actor, a popular clergyman or a well-known doctor, who disturbs the calm of the night.
MELITTA LET SLIP THAT YOU'RE A FAMOUS POET.
They were famous, and sought after by the press.
Sheriff Jim Hickory and his two oldest sons have made the family name famous throughout the country.
This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
You're famous.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
For your first assignment, you will partner up to recreate a famous Renaissance painting, with you as the subject.
I recognize him. He's a famous German composer.
Makes you wonder exactly what this guy's famous for.
Explain to him that he became famous.
The famous Beaugard, as promised.
At last we are to meet him, the famous Captain Spaulding.
That's the famous Beaugard, eh?
Now you're famous.
Dr. Seward and his famous scholar are in the abbey chasing vampires.
It isn't every day they get to see a famous round-the-world flyer.
But then, the lightning army group is very famous.
The most famous was the Tower of Babel.
JUWELER ARRESTED This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
Every full-grown emperor needs one war to make him famous.
And since you can't use a famous signature. you'll only get chicken feed.
Not to you, but Mrs. Wood is becoming very famous abroad.
And where is this famous Clara?
THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS PAINTING IN THE WORLD.
Can you imagine 100 girls in a ballet school. each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in the world?
Then I became famous soon.
We're famous.
From Geneva comes the news. that the famous international crook, Gaston Monescu, robbed the peace conference yesterday.

News and current affairs

For example, star-struck female film fans may be especially prone to believe any utterance from Hollywood's most famous silver fox.
The most creative breakthroughs became famous events.
Just as people increasingly admire international celebrities, so they believe that world famous centers of business, technology, and culture - whose names are household words to people everywhere - are uniquely valuable.
As with fear of terrorism and suspicion of equities, geographical celebrity appears resilient, if not self-reinforcing: the more famous New York, Paris, and London get, the more glamorous they become.
The machines can now even be set to imitate famous human players - including their flaws - so well that only an expert eye (and sometimes only another computer!) can tell the difference.
Tempo's case could become a landmark victory for our democracy, like the US Supreme Court's famous decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan.
The surreal environment, the amazing chess turns, and the Cold War backdrop made Fischer one of the most famous people in the world that summer.
California's two most famous industries, Silicon Valley and Hollywood, depend on infusions of talent from abroad.
Nevertheless, the fact that it has been taken up by the world's most famous business school is significant.
One careful study of presidential rhetoric found that even such famous orators as Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan could not count on charisma to enact their programs.
World famous but controversial, Blair is capable of rallying public opinion and giving the European project the high profile that the EU craves.
The precautionary principle is a variant on Pascal's famous wager on the existence of God.
This applies especially to Germany: The famous German Mittelstand often does produce highly specialized goods; but it also prides itself on its flexibility and adaptability.
Cambridge - President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming the promotion of democracy a central focus of American foreign policy.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
Along the way, a number of famous physicists tried and failed to get the answer - Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Richard Feynman being notable examples.
Similarly, a few years ago, the world was shocked to learn that famous Italian writer Ignazio Silone had, in his youth, collaborated with the fascist police.
Angelina Jolie puts a famous face on this phenomenon.
The garbage crisis in Naples remains unresolved putting the international reputation of one of Italy's most famous products, mozzarella, at risk.
Indeed, the most famous free-speech cases - the ones that are supposed to showcase America's strength and moral power - involve the protection of speech that most decent people hate.
The wording of the new MBA oath draws on one adopted in 2006 by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona. Nevertheless, the fact that it has been taken up by the world's most famous business school is significant.
Nalanda received hundreds of Chinese students in its time, and a few Indians went the other way; a Buddhist monk from India built the famous Lingyin Si temple in Huangzhou in the fifth century.
Indeed, she looks more like a Korean Margaret Thatcher - a lady not for turning, in Thatcher's famous phrase, and with clearly thought-through political principles animating her actions.
The best starting point would be a re-reading of Winston Churchill's famous speech in Zurich in 1946.
When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijing opera flashed through my mind.

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