FAME in a Sentence

Learn FAME from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
105 example sentences for FAME, such as:
1. Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.
2. A good fame is better than a good face.
3. Chinese porcelain enjoys worldwide fame.
4. He endeavored after more fame and wealth.
5. She gained international fame as a dancer.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FAME
fame
 n.  favorable public reputation
 n.  the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  the writer, scraping in the dunghill for sixpenny fame.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  Your rivals to surpass and merit fame.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  And the lips that shall refuse to pledge me to his well-earned fame, I term false and dishonoured, and will so maintain them with my life.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  And well and chivalrous did De Bracy that day maintain the fame he had acquired in the civil wars of that dreadful period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  The former feeling gradually gave way before the endearments of his ward, and the pride which he could not help nourishing in the fame of his son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  Clifford was making strides into fame, and even money.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  She wanted nothing more than what she'd got; only she wanted to get ahead with what she'd got: Clifford, the stories, Wragby, the Lady-Chatterley business, money and fame, such as it was.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  It was the other world he wanted to capture, the world of literature and fame; the popular world, not the working world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The fact was that Yeobright's fame had spread to an awkward extent before he left home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
12  "It is bad when your fame outruns your means," said the Spanish Jesuit Gracian.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
13  An individual whose fame spreads three or four thousand yards in the time taken by the fame of others similarly situated to travel six or eight hundred, must of necessity have something in him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
14  Possibly Clym's fame, like Homer's, owed something to the accidents of his situation; nevertheless famous he was.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
15  Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  He endeavored after more fame and wealth.
2  Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
3  Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
4  The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
5  The book catapulted the author into fame overnight.
6  The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame.
7  Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
8  A good fame is better than a good face.
9  Chinese porcelain enjoys worldwide fame.
10  Everyone seems to want to get into television to claim their share of fame and fortune.
11  My main claim to fame is that I once shook Elvis's hand.
12  The reformer's fame spread all over the country.
13  She gained international fame as a dancer.
14  Her principal objective was international fame as a scientist.
15  The thought that any parent would manipulate their child into seeking fame just appalled me.