Sentence examples for illustrious on from inspiring English sources

After several days of sea trials, she sailed for Britain in company with Illustrious on 12 December.

Four of these then flew ashore to conduct operations until they rejoined Illustrious on 14 September at Malta.

Vice Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings, commander of Task Force 57, ordered the recently arrived Formidable to join the task force to replace Illustrious on 8 April.

Captain Charles Lambe was appointed as the new captain of Illustrious on 21 May, but he could not join his new ship until 9 July.

The attack, with both available carriers, was originally planned for 21 October, the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, but a hangar fire aboard Illustrious on 18 October forced its postponement until 11 November when the next favourable phase of the moon occurred.

The United States Department of the Interior moved on Monday to make this city's municipal landfill a national historic landmark, but the move was trumped later that day by another designation, a less illustrious one, on the federal Superfund list.

In comparison with his illustrious contemporary on-field and on paper, "while Sir Donald walked the corridors of cricketing power O'Reilly was the rumbustious backbencher".

There are illustrious walk-ons — the Sing Sing warden Lewis Lawes, the mobsters Dutch Schultz and Joey Gallo.

In between is a trove of pieces by wonderful writers, including many names that appeared in "Illustrated History," and many more that didn't but are, by 2017, equally illustrious: Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Jessica Hopper on emo, John Jeremiah Sullivan on Axl Rose, Ann Powers on P. J. Harvey, Greg Tate on Kanye West and 50 Cent.

Daly, meanwhile, found himself 2,000 miles to the west getting ready to compete in the Reno-Tahoe Open, one of the less illustrious events on the PGA Tour calendar.

They program launches, events and readings as well, which have seen appearances from the likes of Helen Garner, Martha Wainwright and Peter Carey – and, on one illustrious occasion, Patti Smith ("The best one we ever had," Rubbo says. "But I probably shouldn't say that").