Sentence examples for is mostly renowned for from inspiring English sources

Although Crichton is mostly renowned for his work as a novelist, he also wrote and directed several motion pictures.

Sports Illustrated's Peter King, the trade's current big dog, is mostly renowned for drinking coffee and pulling Sunday all-nighters for his weekly column, but is a magnet for information and access, and it comes across, Starbucks worship notwithstanding.

Maybe we should put it down to nervous tension, though George was mostly renowned for his calm, phlegmatic temperament.

Despite their beneficial ecological contributions, muscid flies are mostly renowned for their medical, veterinary, and agricultural pests, which include the house fly, Musca domestica Linnaeus, the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus), and various shoot flies of the genus Atherigona.

Although John Snow is best known now for his work on cholera, during his lifetime he was mostly renowned as an anesthesiologist; he was the personal anesthetist to Queen Victoria during delivery of a number of her children.

Situated in the upper Amazon, a region mostly renowned for leeches the size of terriers, the lodge proved to be a refined and, almost disappointingly, comfortable retreat.

Pellegrini is renowned for being flexible.

It is renowned for being convenient, fairly light and striking.

But mostly they were renowned for their use of secret drawers, moving parts and hidden music boxes, sometimes revealed by the push of a button.

Brunei is particularly renowned for its metalwork.

He is more renowned for his entourage.