How to Use vaunted in a Sentence

vaunted

adjective
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  • The team's vaunted defense faltered in the second half of the game.
  • Omos was in the vaunted Raquel Rodriguez spot in this match.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • 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
  • The Ravens’ vaunted running game also vanished with the rest of the offense.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 Reds scored three runs in the eighth inning against vaunted Brewers reliever Devin Williams.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
  • Yup, the Eagles in 2018 over the vaunted New England Patriots.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The game ended with the vaunted Erickson waiting on deck.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2022
  • But a long pattern of decline is clear for a unit that once anchored a vaunted defense.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • MacAskill, who was born in 1987 as William Crouch, grew up in Glasgow and attended a vaunted private school.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Out goes the vaunted mobility-for-all dreams that self-driving cars are supposed to bring to life.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • What happened behind the scenes leading to the demise of the vaunted local program remains a question.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Many Berlin artists have been pushed to the periphery, into less vaunted neighborhoods across the city’s 340-square-mile sprawl.
    — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Singer, the vaunted Porsche restoration house, has now revealed a new creation that combines both into the essence of a 911 Turbo.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
  • The other half of its vaunted running back duo, Javonte Williams, fumbled on third-and-goal from the 1-yard line after being stacked up in the backfield.
    — Parker Gabriel, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The first sign of cracks in the vaunted postseason bullpen came when Alvarado on his first pitch plunked Yordan Alvarez in the rear with the bases loaded.
    — Dan Gelston, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Back in the arena against his most vaunted opponent, Father Time, who thus far, Brady has managed to one-up again and again.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2022
  • What's happening to the Lone Star State's vaunted pro-business mojo?
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 24 July 2023
  • For my prior coverage on the vaunted topic of AI hallucinations, take a look at the link here, the link here, and the link here, just to name a few.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Their stories are the story of this country, all the joy and heartbreak, all the vaunted hope and dismal reality.
    — Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • After Tan broke Williams’ vaunted serve for the third time at 5-5 and finished off the set, Wimbledon officials closed the roof due to darkness.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022

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