Sentence examples for gained widespread popularity from inspiring English sources

It gained widespread popularity in the U.S. in the late 1980s.

In London he soon became intimate with Sir Joshua Reynolds and gained widespread popularity.

Consumer cooperatives have gained widespread popularity throughout western and northern Europe, particularly in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Great Britain.

Mr. Bo gained widespread popularity after mounting splashy campaigns to purge officials and businesspeople said to be tied to crime, redistribute wealth, and urbanize rural residents.

Ultimately, though, it gained widespread popularity on its own, Mr. Barrett acknowledged in an interview here, as a grass-roots, from-the-bottom-up movement.

A statement on Mr. Jordan's Web site said: "The Chinese company has registered and uses the name 'Qiaodan', which is the moniker Michael Jordan has been known by in China since he gained widespread popularity in the mid-1980s".

Once the domain of the outdoor set, reusable containers are gaining widespread popularity.

The song received critical acclaim upon its release in December but did not gain widespread popularity.

While I might be pessimistic about the chances of sherry gaining widespread popularity, Jennifer Lordan, the beverage director at Dovetail on the Upper West Side, is not.

Despite the breakthrough, telesurgery failed to gain widespread popularity for multiple reasons, including time delays between the control end and the operating end.

The frantic pace of developments indicates that the industry is fast reaching a critical mass in its embrace of technology that could reshape the market, although skeptics still argue that electronic books are at least two years away from gaining widespread popularity.