Sentence examples for a distinguished line from inspiring English sources

McLaughlin joins a distinguished line of British pier architects.

P Diddy comes from a distinguished line, then: the Proustian tradition of infinite delay.

(The ESKOM Building was torn down in 1983, joining a distinguished line of vanished landmarks).

Dvořák continued a distinguished line of Bohemian symphonists stretching back to Johann Stamitz.

She joins a distinguished line of past winners including Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.

If Matilda -- the latest in a distinguished line of Algonquin lobby cats dating back to the 1930's -- would have preferred something rattier, she did not say.

In September, she will join a distinguished line-up of women including Rosie O'Donnell, Meredith Vieira, Whoopi Goldberg and -- of course -- Barbara Walters.

Crescent has a distinguished parentage.

Councillor David Sparks has a distinguished pedigree.

This month, a 1947 novel, "Act of Passion," is being reissued by New York Review Books, which has a long and distinguished line of Simenons.

Nevertheless, "Wadjda" deserves its place in the canon of two-wheeled movies: a slim but distinguished line, gliding from De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves," Tati's "Jour de Fête," and Truffaut's "Les Mistons" through to the Dardenne brothers' "The Kid with a Bike".