Sample sentences for ILLUSTRIOUS

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Definition

famous and admired; or worthy of admiration

an illustrious achievement

illustrious = famous and admired; or worthy of admiration

The book thief had struck for the first time—the beginning of an illustrious career.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

illustrious = worthy of admiration

We saw a great painting on the wall over their heads, of the twenty illustrious men who had invented the candle.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

illustrious = famous and admired

I knew he was feeling that this was just one more time when he failed to live up to his illustrious father's expectations.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

illustrious = worthy of admiration

Yes, an illustrious career.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

illustrious = worthy of admiration

I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
"Oh, that's the doctors in the theatre, conferring honorary degrees on the Duke of Hamptonshire and a lot more illustrious gents of that sort.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Mr. Dorrico had been a janitor at Stony Brook for most of his illustrious fifty-year janitorial career.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
He had been afraid that he could not save his illustrious employers from the anger of an excited peasantry.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
And above all, he was overwhelmed in tenderness for his friends, who were all illustrious.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
The experience of Great Britain affords an illustrious comment on the excellence of the institution.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
You must understand, good sir, that such unique talents are what crown the illustrious smee as uncontested ruler of the mimicry world.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Good God, though we did play the brigand we might at least emulate the illustrious and spare pretty women.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some perplexity from it to my illustrious client.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
But what of our illustrious Eugenia?
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
That illustrious building was to Hugh a carnival.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
[heartily] Have I the pleasure of again receiving a visit from the illustrious Commander of Calatrava?
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
"Is the I for 'illustrious' or perhaps 'impertinent'?"
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains

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