Sentence examples for distinguished line of from inspiring English sources

McLaughlin joins a distinguished line of British pier architects.

Thomas Walsingham (d. c. 1422) was the last of a distinguished line of St. Albans chroniclers.

(The ESKOM Building was torn down in 1983, joining a distinguished line of vanished landmarks).

Dvořák continued a distinguished line of Bohemian symphonists stretching back to Johann Stamitz.

"The VC is hard won and he is following in a long and distinguished line of people awarded the honour.

She joins a distinguished line of past winners including Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.

Weill descended on both sides of his family from distinguished lines of German rabbis and cantors, and although he broke with Judaism in his student days, married a non-Jew, Lotte Lenya, and was even buried in a nonreligious ceremony, he never disowned his Jewish identity.

In September, she will join a distinguished line-up of women including Rosie O'Donnell, Meredith Vieira, Whoopi Goldberg and -- of course -- Barbara Walters.

She follows a distinguished line-up of thespian (male) talent that stretches all the way back to the sci-fi favourite's first episode in 1963.

In that engagement were slain seventy-four ourour cavalry, and among them the gallant Piso of Aquitania, the scion of a most distinguished line, whose grandfather had held the sovereignty in his own state, and had been saluted as Friend by the Roman p195 Senate.

P Diddy comes from a distinguished line, then: the Proustian tradition of infinite delay.