Sentence examples for illustrious roster from inspiring English sources

Mr. Joel, 64, said in a statement that he was honored to be among an "illustrious roster of outstanding musicians".

The winner of the award, who receives a cheque for £2014, will be announced on 1 May and will join an illustrious roster of former winners including Atwood, M John Harrison and  China Miéville.

In fact, the bulk of the star wattage at this year's edition can be found in the featured speakers sidebar, where Hanks is included on an illustrious roster that also includes Patti Smith, Tina Fey, Jodie Foster, Baz Luhrmann, Jane Fonda, Joss Whedon and Mark Ruffalo.

Skull and Bones has, after all, a particularly illustrious alumni roster: two previous presidents (Mr. Bush's father and William Howard Taft), Averell Harriman, McGeorge Bundy, Henry Luce, Potter Stewart, the writer John Hersey and numerous officials in the Central Intelligence Agency, a traditional career path for Bonesmen.

And class sizes tend to be small, rarely more than 30 students, which is especially appealing given the illustrious teaching rosters at the city's elite universities, such as the Université Paris-Sorbonne, École Polytechnique and Sciences Po.

He introduced a long roster of illustrious writers, publishing first books by, among others, Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Randall Jarrell, William Gaddis, Jack Kerouac and Susan Sontag.

His last post was as headmaster of the Phillis Wheatley School in Houston, a well-known black high school with a roster of illustrious alumni.

In the fall of 2005, she left her parents' home for Farmington, Conn., and the bucolic campus of Miss Porter's, an all-girls boarding school best known for its roster of illustrious graduates: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Gloria Vanderbilt, Dorothy Walker Bush and many others.