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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    Our illustrious Elector Primo had just accepted another four-year presidential term.†  (source)
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    They implied illustrious forebears, perhaps on the mother's side.†  (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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    And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader — and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death — Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.†  (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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    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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    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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    And right now it was a gift of pictures twitched in pantomime, as Mr Dark made his illustrious jerk coldskinned over his warm-pulsed wrist as the stars came out above and, Jim stared and Will could not see and a long way off the last of the town people went away toward town in their warm cars, and Jim said, faintly, 'Gosh....' and Mr Dark rolled down his sleeve.†  (source)
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