Sentence examples for a wide popularity from inspiring English sources

"Its search engine enjoys a wide popularity and currently totals around 90 percent of the Web searches made in France.

The rich oral tradition of poetry and folk tales possessed by the Lao-speaking people predates their written literature and maintains a wide popularity to the present day.

The work of his company was appreciably more refined than that of earlier groups, yet it was sufficiently rooted in the everyday to maintain a wide popularity.

Folk art is often associated with bright colour and an appealing charm, qualities sufficiently present to account for a wide popularity but counterbalanced by the sombreness and seriousness of many pieces, notably in religious art.

With the benefit of hindsight, a reviewer in Charles Scribner's monthly, Hours at Home, recalled that the pamphlet was "hardly to be classed as literature," but that "it was exceedingly clever and trenchant, it gained a wide popularity, and had a great effect on opinion".

He lived in modest fashion even as he provided supporters with money and costly favours, purchased influence, and accepted the corruption of many of those around him and, in spite of criticism of his authoritarian style of governing, he managed to gain a wide popularity among his people.

Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity than had any previous author during his lifetime.

Jagjit Singh, a singer of wide popularity in South Asia who helped revive and popularize ghazals — a venerable form of Persian poetry set to music expressing the writer's feelings, especially about love — died on Monday in Mumbai.

Norman Dello Joio, a composer who achieved wide popularity in the mid-20th century with a proliferation of essentially tonal, lyrical works, died on Thursday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y.

The vehicles may have been dangerous, wasteful, and unnecessary, but what the hey, they were fun! "More smiles per gallon," promised an ad for the Suzuki Samurai, an S.U.V. that enjoyed wide popularity until reports suggested that it was prone to roll over.

The unsettling triphoppy grooves of Little Dragon's debut album didn't suggest a band destined for wide popularity, but thanks to the fizzing, many-genred electropop of 2012's Ritual Union and their work with Gorillaz, the Swedes' niche is now a pretty big one.