Sentence examples for bred star from inspiring English sources

Alt-weeklies used to be vibrant and well-respected parts of the media ecosystem; they bred star journalists and covered local controversies that their more mainstream daily competitors were sometimes too timid to address.

Hollywood used to breed stars "like minks," as Pauline Kael said, but we may be breeding a different kind of animal now.

Millfield School in Somerset – an £11,000-a-term establishment which has bred rugby stars including the England captain Chris Robshaw – released a one-line statement on behalf of the Line family: "Charlie is now back at school and focussing on his studies.

Coward's friend Twiggy introduces David Lean's Blithe Spirit (in which she's also performed), while Hayley Mills talks about their family drama This Happy Breed (starring her father John) and Alistair McGowan introduces Our Man In Havana.

That's the only way the one reggae star bred in the city, Chuck Fender, was able to succeed on a national scale.

"More and more young phenoms are popping up because their parents are trying to breed basketball stars," Rivers said.

Every day she arrived at the sprawling campus, with its swim team and banners promoting reading, to experience the youthful rites that, as the Oxfordshire-bred star of the "Harry Potter" franchise from age 10 to 20, had otherwise eluded her.

By the looks of it, everything seemed to work out and the Bronx-bred star took the stage in Brazil at the Itaquerao stadium in Sao Paulo.

To underline the lack of home-grown cycling stars in Kent, every community along the way has bred a Flandrian cycling star: Freddy Maertens in Nieuwpoort, double Tour winner Sylvere Maes in Gistel, a double world champion in the evocatively named Briek 'Brick' Schotte in Tielt.

Madrid has bred more of its stars than most people give it credit for.

In country music tradition, stars are bred not born.