8 sentences with 'infamous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word infamous and other words derived from it.
• « Pharaoh Amenhotep was infamous in his own lifetime for attempting a large-scale, ill-conceived religious revolution. »
• « Julius Caesar was appointed general of the territory of Gaul (present-day France and Belgium) and set out to fight an infamous Celtic king named Vercingetorix. »
• « the most notorious, Alexander VI (r. 1492 - 1503), sponsored his sons (the infamous Borgia family) in their attempts to seize territory throughout northern Italy. »
• « An infamous incident occurred in late May, when more than 300,000 British and French troops retreating from the Germans were pinned down on the English Channel coast near the French town of Dunkirk. There, a flotilla of navy and fishing vessels managed to evacuate them back to England while the British Royal Air Force held off the opposing German Luftwaffe (air force). »
• « By the late autumn of 1941, killing facilities were under construction at the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps, both built as slave labour camps in 1940. There, the first experiments with the infamous pesticide Zyklon B were carried out on Russian prisoners of war. »
• « The most infamous of the camps is undoubtedly Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a great exception among the extermination camps in that it housed Jewish prisoners who were not immediately murdered. »
• « Also, the infamous tattooing of prisoners only took place in Auschwitz; after all, there was no point in tattooing victims who were to be murdered within hours. »
• « The Vietnam War is one of the most infamous wars in modern American history (for Americans) because America lost it. At the same time, the American commitment to the war is only realised if it is placed in its historical context, that of a Cold War conflict that appeared to American politicians as a test of resolve in the face of the spread of communism. »