Sentence examples for a less illustrious from inspiring English sources

A less illustrious heritage is also discernible.

However, the musical also has a less illustrious record to its name: the highest ticket prices in Broadway history.

By the time Mr. Duritz had finished the first chorus, however, a less illustrious influence had been laid bare: it also sounded like the theme song from "Friends".

Four years later the Sydney Test signalled the end of a pair of outsized sporting greats, as Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath retired, and for England the last sighting in Tests of a less illustrious pair.

The United States Department of the Interior moved on Monday to make this city's municipal landfill a national historic landmark, but the move was trumped later that day by another designation, a less illustrious one, on the federal Superfund list.

"There is no other like it, it is almost like a living thing," said Ute Wartenberg Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society in Manhattan, which has a less illustrious 18th-century Cincinnati medal in its collection.

The previous record holder was also a Testa Rossa, albeit one with a slightly less illustrious history.

He did a good deal of less illustrious TV, played Jonathan Harker in a radio version of Dracula, and in 2006 was at the Edinburgh fringe playing Michael Collins in Allegiance, and leading a stage production of Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs.

No less illustrious an investor than Y Combinator has backed a similar business in India called Kisan Network.

(A few thousand crates of less illustrious treasures were left on a dock in Nanjing).

Every once in a while, though, a piece of the area's less illustrious past comes into view.