Sentence examples for illustrious an from inspiring English sources

While British politicians decide what to do, the British military is expected to keep the Illustrious, an aircraft carrier, on station in the Arabian Sea.

No less illustrious an investor than Y Combinator has backed a similar business in India called Kisan Network.

Also on the way: the Illustrious, a British aircraft carrier stocked with transport planes, medical experts and $32 million worth of aid.

Grand-Jean, a managing director of Salomon Brothers, was an avid reader, and he took satisfaction in renting from so illustrious a figure.

At the time, Toledo was the religious capital of Spain and a populous city with "an illustrious past, a prosperous present and an uncertain future".

THE great, good and less good of Kiev gathered last week to honour an illustrious guest and an unlikely artistic collaboration.

Mr. Feld, who was born in Brooklyn, had an illustrious career as a dancer himself.

It was wrong, he suggested, to reduce an illustrious history to a saga of household intrigues.

She has not led an illustrious or even a productive life.

But its appearance alludes to an illustrious past as a home to titans of 19th- and early-20th-century industry.

That could make the difference between tenure and no tenure, and between an illustrious career and a pedestrian one.