fame

IPA: fˈeɪm

Examples of "fame" in Sentences

Her 15 minutes of "fame" is over and she has milked it for all it is worth.
I am going to make you famous, not that your fame is any less without my help.
Must be real career boost when your main claim to fame is to be able to mock someone.
Hey, the guy's claim to fame is that he was the economic development brains behind Vera Katz -- what were you expecting?
For that more lasting success which we call fame other qualities are needed, such qualities as imagination, fancy, and magic and force in the use of words.
Whatever is enclosed within marks of parenthesis is also independent of the rest of the sentence; as, I stake my fame (_and I had fame_), my heart, my hope, my soul, upon this cast.
For rumour [the Greek pheme, via fama in Latin, gives us our word fame] is an evil thing; by nature she's a light weight to lift up, yes, but heavy to carry and hard to put down again.
It's a free country and I certainly don't begrudge Mr. Coursey the right to make money in any way he sees fit, but (and I'm being charitable here) I'm not sure his "fame" is a good fit for his business model.
His other claim to fame is to have steered the Orwellian Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill onto the Statute Book, a bill that would, in its unamended state, have allowed the Government to make laws without having to bother with the tedious business of Parliament approval.