Sentence examples for a great icon from inspiring English sources

"It's been a great icon for us".

So I've been familiar with the material for a while, and of course Isherwood is a great icon, and being gay myself, he meant quite a lot.

We became great friends, and those things are so wonderful in your life -- to meet a man like that, a great icon.

Gennaro Castaldo of retailer HMV said: "We always find where a great icon dies that there's a massive uplift in their music sales as fans want to connect and express their grief through the records.

"In my recent memory, the Holy Spirit's not let us down, because the popes with whom we've been blessed have been a great icon of Jesus Christ, and I'm confident that the next one will be as well," he said.

The Glowing Plant Project, the first crowdfunding campaign for a synthetic biology application, is supported by the Harvard geneticist George Church, who once said that "even a weakly glowing flower would be a great icon".

Milburn, moving to centre-forward, would, as "Wor Jackie", become a greater icon on Tyneside than Stubbins, but many fans and journalists believe that Stubbins was a still better centre-forward.

"But we could never get it produced, because someone would always say, 'Aren't we sullying the image of a great American icon?' " Within days of the research's publication, Ms. Andrews signed a contract to expand her script into a miniseries.

Graeme McDowell on Rory McIlroy: "He's a great role model and great icon for Europe".

Notman also rebuilt Princeton University's great icon, Nassau Hall (1754-56), afire a fine in 1855.

"Mrs. Robinson is a great American icon," Ms. Bracco said.