Sentence examples for it is illustrious from inspiring English sources

The list of people Gross has interviewed over her nearly 35 years as host of National Public Radio's standout show is as lengthy as it is illustrious, and includes everyone from Hollywood heavies to Nobel Prize-wining authors.

With nods to Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls (which, to be fair, blur the line between RPGs and sandbox games), if FFXIII comes even close to matching some of it's illustrious predecessors it should blow away all of its competition.

This attitude is illustrious".

If the film carefully sidesteps the highly subjective question of which format is better, the roll call of interviewees is illustrious.

The language we use to put down women is illustrious and plentiful, a cloying metaphor for every ingredient in a well-stocked kitchen.

After a long Google, I still don't fully understand the Order of the Bath, though I've learned it is less "illustrious" than the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick (dormant).

"But I do say that joy is one of its most vulgar ornaments; whereas melancholy is, as it were, its illustrious companion".

As he put it in "The Statues in the Public Gardens," "Children, to be illustrious is sad".

While it may be argued some of those managerial careers have not been illustrious enough to deserve a crack at United, Giggs has yet to commence a managerial career.

He wanted to be "illustrious and unknown," he said.

These two young tyros are at the beginnings of what could and should be illustrious careers.