Sentence examples for famously stood from inspiring English sources

"He famously stood in the wall when Brazil were given a free-kick from 30 yards out.

On June 11, Wallace famously stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent two qualified black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.

Andrés, of course, famously stood up to Donald Trump in the summer of 2015, when the president was still campaigning for the job.

The Turner nominee Dryden Goodwin famously stood across the street tracing the outline of night-workers' faces with a laser beam until they turned to the outer world.

A decade later, during the 2012 Republican presidential race, Mr. Perry, his successor as Texas governor, famously stood by his support for a 2001 law that gave young illegal immigrants in-state college tuition rates.

"If she wants to have a marriage and a life," Ms. Hodja said, Ms. Abedin should consider modeling her behavior on that of her boss, Mrs. Clinton, who famously stood by President Bill Clinton during marital infidelities.

Let's not delve too far, for fear of an aneurysm, into the pioneering imbecility of there being an "origin story" about Jay Gatsby, the self-made man whose mysterious past and reconfigured image famously stand for the fraudulence of the American dream.

He often disrupted Plato's lectures and when Alexander the Great, leaning over him, offered to give him anything he wanted, Diogenes famously retorted "Stand out of my light".

The Czech girl with a notoriously fragile temperament and a famously fiendish talent stood on verge of making 'myy dream come true''.

It then spent a decade paying a heavy price for trying to stay there, as even Afghanistan's famously quarrelsome people stood more or less united against it.This time, it's true, things are different.

There have been definite missteps, three of them coming while travelling abroad: insulting Pakistan while in India and Israel while in Turkey, and suggesting Britain was the "junior partner" to the US in 1940, when that was the year the country stood famously alone against the Nazis.