Sample Sentences for
illustrious
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    She had an illustrious career in medicine, earning awards and international recognition.
    illustrious = famous and respected
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    The book thief had struck for the first time—the beginning of an illustrious career.  (source)
    illustrious = worthy of admiration
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    We saw a great painting on the wall over their heads, of the twenty illustrious men who had invented the candle.  (source)
    illustrious = famous and admired
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    I knew he was feeling that this was just one more time when he failed to live up to his illustrious father's expectations.  (source)
    illustrious = worthy of admiration
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    At any rate, my illustrious ancestor would certainly approve of my daily routine.†  (source)
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    They implied illustrious forebears, perhaps on the mother's side.†  (source)
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    Our illustrious Elector Primo had just accepted another four-year presidential term.†  (source)
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    Your illustrious associate Morse is drooling down my neck.†  (source)
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    An illustrious traveler of the period described the market as one of the most varied in the world.†  (source)
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    No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her.†  (source)
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    The Blantons were a famous group in Breathitt, and they had a feuding history nearly as illustrious as Papaw's.†  (source)
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    And do you think the engineers who designed their illustrious skyscrapers or built their highways hesitated for one moment to level the lovely little neighborhoods that stood in their way?†  (source)
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    We slipped from under a canopy of bare branches, and it was then I glimpsed it: the grand, forbidding, illustrious old house, the great manor of Granbourne.†  (source)
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