How to Use vaunted in a Sentence

vaunted

adjective
  • The team's vaunted defense faltered in the second half of the game.
  • The state was part of the Democrats’ vaunted blue wall.
    Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Omos was in the vaunted Raquel Rodriguez spot in this match.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • Troy Baker has voiced roles in many of the most vaunted video games of the last decade.
    Eve Sneider, Wired, 23 July 2021
  • And an 88-win team didn’t have to touch any of its deep and vaunted pitching.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Before their more vaunted show, the duo got a sitcom in 1965.
    Frazier Moore, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • This is not to suggest that Chaim Bloom blow up his vaunted plan.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Instead, Bryce Young and the Tide lit up the Bulldogs' vaunted defense to earn the top seed.
    Ralph D. Russo, Chron, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Instead, Bryce Young and the Tide lit up the Bulldogs’ vaunted defense to earn the top seed.
    NBC News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The Ravens’ vaunted running game also vanished with the rest of the offense.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Next stop was the vaunted worm room, reached by tiptoeing over the dirt floor.
    Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • And in the fourth Super Bowl, that group shut down the Vikings' vaunted run game in a 23-7 victory.
    Dave Skretta, ajc, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The vaunted French army, one of the world’s largest, was overwhelmed by the onslaught, and France signed an armistice six weeks later.
    Michael F. Bishop, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The vaunted gender gap was less this time than with Trump-Clinton in 2016.
    John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The Browns’ vaunted defense, which had been the best in the league in the first half of the season, hasn’t been as effective in recent games.
    Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • What happens next with the vaunted class is unknown, but Heird will be hard-pressed to find a new coach soon.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2022
  • A decade after the Aronoff opened, for instance, the vaunted Maisonette restaurant closed.
    David Lyman, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2020
  • DE Chase Young has zero sacks and his vaunted D-line mates have a total of six.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • And the much vaunted shooters failed to follow in Bindra’s footsteps.
    New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Steelers have not won since Week 9, and their vaunted defense has given up 82 points over the past two weeks.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The Giants have yet to face the vaunted Dodgers and have enjoyed 13 games against the punchless Marlins and Rockies.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Meanwhile, where are the young pitchers in this vaunted farm system?
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a different sort of test for a UK defensive front that is perhaps the most vaunted part of the depth chart.
    Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The Panthers used their vaunted rushing attack to get even.
    Tyler Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Playing the keep-away game looks to be a wise strategy when the Irish face UNC’s vaunted offense.
    Carter Karels, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Both Thompson and Card signed with Texas as vaunted four-star dual-threat prospects.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • But as always with Bloom and his vaunted remote work research, there is more to the story.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But that was before Lloyd's vaunted defense had taken the field.
    Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The first Nix-Sutton touchdown came after the Broncos’ vaunted pass rush finally got home and created a pair of game-changing plays.
    Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Photograph from Alma Gourmet Unlike black truffles, which both smell and taste savory and earthy, the vaunted white truffle—more expensive, more rare, in all ways more absurd—tastes like nothing at all.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024

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