How to Use notorious in a Sentence

notorious

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• The coach is notorious for his violent outbursts.
• Some of the most notorious winter storms along the East Coast have been nor'easters.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
• The first thing to know is that Kate is notorious for putting in serious work in the gym.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
• The road where Tiger Woods crashed has been notorious for decades.
  — Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• So much so that the last person to do it was the notorious lefty Ronald Reagan, with the mass amnesty of 1986.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• This time of year, when the depths of winter are on the horizon, are notorious for strong winds like this, Lutz said.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2021
• That the Red Army did next to nothing to assist them is notorious.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• The boss was one of the most notorious human traffickers in Africa.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The most notorious of these raiders was the CSS Alabama.
  — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Historians say the most notorious slavers used their wealth to fund the bank or staff it.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Game Boy was notorious for puzzle games, most of which were pretty dull.
  — PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2022
• Most people dread going to the post office, where the lines are notorious.
  — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020
• The bathroom is notorious for soap scum due to the amount of moisture, soap, and other products used.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
• Some fabrics, like linen and cotton, though great for the warmer weather, are notorious for wrinkling at the drop of a hat.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
• Connecticut is notorious for having a lot of smog — some of the worst levels in the country, in fact.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• For starters, much of it is outside Canton Zurich, in an area notorious for its tax breaks.
  — Adam Graham, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2022
• Footage showing abuse in the country's notorious Evin prison has leaked out.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 27 June 2022
• This culture was set in part by the most notorious coaches of the modern era: Béla and Márta Károlyi.
  — Kelly Jones, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2024
• The biggest concern for an investor in one of these ETFs is the notorious volatility in the price of bitcoin.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Use small jigs with short tails because the fish are notorious short-strikers.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• The company is notorious for killing off all sorts of apps and devices.
  — WIRED, 1 Apr. 2023
• Bahceli has called for an amnesty that would allow some of Turkey’s most notorious mafia bosses to get out of jail.
  — Cagan Koc, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2018
• After all, the bicoastal rappers were once locked in a notorious hip-hop beef.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2023
• Along a dirt track, Facussé pointed out the notorious airstrip.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• At the time of my trip, the most notorious bear here was the 18-year-old Mother Frost, who, along with her cubs, broke into as many as eight cabins last year in search of food.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• While his Wild Bunch gang was among the most feared and notorious bands of outlaws in the West, Cassidy was widely known for his good-natured ease and charm.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
• What's more, 96% of the shoes had the fecal bacteria E. Coli, the notorious cause of GI and urinary tract infections.
  — Liz Krieger, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2023
• With no video, there was no body language to read, no moments to replay like trying on the notorious glove.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Mohammadi has spent most of the past two decades as an inmate of Tehran’s Evin prison – notorious for housing critics of the Iranian regime.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
• Parchman Farm was reborn as Parchman Prison in 1900, a place that became notorious even then for the rate at which incarcerated men died from overwork and abuse.
  — Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024