How to Use notoriety in a Sentence

notoriety

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  • He achieved instant fame and notoriety with the release of his film.
  • She gained notoriety when nude photographs of her appeared in a magazine.
  • His comment about the President has given him a notoriety that he enjoys very much.
  • The white wines are the most well-known, and much of that notoriety is thanks to Falanghina, one of the great white grapes of southern Italy.
    — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The pretend band is what blew up and got him notoriety.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The local car-theft group went on to gain more notoriety from a viral YouTube video last year.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
  • That part of Wauneka's life was only a small part of her notoriety.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The film is meant to be a commentary on the dark side of Hollywood and the often ghastly cost of notoriety.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Over the years, the film has acquired a kind of notoriety, too, because Beals did so little of Alex’s dancing.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Many of them now live their lives with a strange internet notoriety, the kind that didn’t exist even just a few years ago.
    — Ben Collins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In a city built on live bands, only a few of whom seem to break out and achieve some level of notoriety, Urban Heat is a hero for Austin.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2023
  • The notoriety of the crash didn’t hurt the film’s performance with audiences though.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The world is ready to see you and your work more clearly, and there’s no time to waste with so many planets falling into your 10th house of growth and notoriety.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The world is ready to see you and your work more clearly, and there’s no time to waste with so many planets falling into your tenth house of growth and notoriety.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Something about the men tipped the police off—a hunch, perhaps, that the burglary had been the work of a gang of young thieves who were coming into some notoriety.
    — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But at what cost comes celebrity, at what cost comes notoriety?
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The success sent Bankman-Fried's wealth and notoriety soaring.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the first time Krasovsky gained notoriety for an extreme pro-war sentiment.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, Ball was unable to enjoy his movie’s growing notoriety.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Newer brands have bet on Super Bowl ads to gain notoriety but rarely see the investment pay off.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Stanley has grown in notoriety over the years thanks to other viral moments too.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Plus, the lack of notoriety means not having to dodge quite so many tourists when attempting to admire its breathtaking views of the sea and mountains. 10.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There’s money on the line, notoriety on the line — and that’s why a lot of duos, historically, have fallen apart.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The notoriety that has come from the pursuit of this goal is largely an accident, and not an entirely welcome one.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 28 June 2023
  • Davos Klosters, Switzerland Davos doesn’t have the notoriety of Chamonix, but snowboarders will love its wide runs and huge halfpipes.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
  • In the early nineteen-seventies, the notoriety of rock managers was starting to rival that of their clients.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In the film, a young McLaughlin’s editor declares the first few murders a non-story, citing the victims’ lack of notoriety.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, both Paltrow and Perry were still young actors who hadn’t yet achieved notoriety.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The album earned the band notoriety in the indie rock underground scene, thanks in part to a tour slot opening for grunge titans Nirvana on the Nevermind tour.
    — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • The movie achieved further notoriety online in 2016, when the YouTube star JonTron posted a bewildered review of it.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023

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