Sentence examples for almost celebrities from inspiring English sources

By the mid-20th century, forensic scientists had a much higher profile, and some were almost celebrities in their own right.

You know the story from beginning to end: A regular old website earns popularity, gains top users who are almost celebrities, and then the site dies more quickly than it rose.

He had acquired an almost celebrity status in Poland, where his books were read as thinly disguised commentaries on communist Poland.

"There's an interest, but whether that interest is more curiosity versus people looking at her for substantive answers I don't know," said Schoenfeld. "I don't think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage".

By providing a platform from which anyone can develop an audience, the app has also had a democratising effect on a particularly elite genre of photography - elevating some photographers, who previously may never have had their work seen, to almost celebrity levels of exposure.

The once reclusive head of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force has emerged from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations abroad, to achieve almost celebrity status in Iran.

In the virtual world of social media, some coaches are rising to almost celebrity status.

Since leaving the prison gang more than a decade ago, Enriquez has developed an almost celebrity-like status among law enforcement.

But, as with most celebrities, we know almost nothing.

In fact there are almost no celebrities.

On Amazon, indeed, the most prolific reviewers are promoted almost as celebrities in their own right.