7 sentences with 'fame'

Example sentences and phrases with the word fame and other words derived from it.

« In September 1900, Alexander Winton, a Cleveland-based manufacturer whose fame had grown primarily through his participation in such races, defeated a group of strong contenders in a 50-mile race in Chicago, and this victory made him the most prominent automobile manufacturer in the United States. »
« The fame of Renaissance art is due to the incredible creativity of the great Renaissance artists, who imitated classical models of art and ultimately forged entirely new artistic paths. »
« The dome was completed in 1413, crowning both his fame as an architect and the Medicis' role as the greatest patrons of Renaissance art and architecture at the time. »
« Napoleon was a great contrast. On the one hand, he was a man of the French Revolution. He had achieved fame only through the opportunities afforded him by the revolutionary armies; as a member of a minor family of Corsican nobility, he would never have risen to prominence in the pre-revolutionary era. »
« His fame as Einstein's "successor" was beginning to follow him like a shadow. »
« Efremov's fame spread in those years and in 1939 he was consulted by a group of Chinese anthropologists. »
« But the most notorious was Cesare Borgia, a fame shared by his sister, the beautiful Lucrezia. »
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