Sentence examples for as illustrious from inspiring English sources

Few pieces in jewelry are as illustrious as a tennis bracelet.

Dan Carter's career, already as illustrious as it gets, continues to travel onwards and upwards.

Scientists as illustrious as John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli fell on their pens trying to derive alpha from first principles.

Neither is it as illustrious as the Knighthood of the Bath, an honour removed from Robert Mugabe, whose sins are right up there with taking your husband's speeding points.

It has been transformed into a team more fitting of a club with as illustrious a history as its own and now regularly finds itself locking horns with the continent's best for European silverware.

That's not quite as illustrious as being a premier closer, but Bosh's ability to keep Miami's offense afloat while James and Dwyane Wade rest has been essential to Miami's season-long success.

In the later Empire, the dignitas ("worth, esteem") that attended on senatorial or equestrian rank was refined further with titles such as vir illustris, "illustrious man".

interkriti.org/crete/hania/polyrinia.html baggyamy Cagaloglu hammam, Istanbul Cagaloglu hammam in Istanbul is one of the oldest Turkish baths in the world and has been visited by figures as diverse and illustrious as Florence Nightingale, King Edward VIII and Tony Curtis.

Reasons to be happy - Pharrell Williams notorious hat is one, as is his illustrious career as performer, producer, fashion designer and musician.

The title derives from Washington's split personality: as the illustrious home of politicians and monuments, and as a metropolis with the highest H.I.V. infection rate in the country.

A hero can be defined not only as an illustrious warrior like Hayes believes, but also as a person admired for his or her achievements and noble qualities.