Sentence examples for it was infamous from inspiring English sources

"It was infamous because a few girls had tried out for it, but no one had ever gotten in from my school," she said.

It was not long ago when New Yorkers kept a safe distance from the water, once so fouled by sewage and industrial waste that it was infamous for harboring cholera, typhoid and hepatitis.

In 2008 it was infamous for the highest rate of deforestation in Amazonia but for the past four years has registered the country's biggest drop – bucking the overall trend of a 28% rise in the past year.

It's infamous for its iconic architectural design, enormous size, and its role as a lifeline for the people of West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift.

It is infamous for its propensity to form stroke-causing thrombi in the heart chambers (atria) that can embolize to other parts of the body; these thrombo-emboli can subsequently occlude the blood vessels and disrupt the circulatory supply through to the brain, causing ischemia, i.e., stroke [ 5].

It's infamous for the flagrancy of its sin-based industries like prostitution, drug trafficking, and the selling of endangered animals.

The nation's largest private employer was the topic of much controversy in part because it is infamous for paying poverty wages to most of its employees, many of whom have to work at a second job and utilize food stamps and other government subsidies in order to make ends meet.

It's infamous for thieves who steal cars and money.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the street corner and the Azeri canteen that then stood on it were infamous for the bloody shoot-outs they hosted between rival Caucasian gangs.

It is infamous for such inventive perversions as sewing one victim's flayed face to a soccer ball or hanging decapitated corpses from bridges by the ankles; and innovative torture, such as dipping people into vats of acid so that their limbs evaporate while doctors keep the victim conscious.

Social media is as famous as it is infamous for the spread of patently false information: rumors of untimely deaths (video below); false information during a school rampage; and Photoshopped images of a catastrophic storm.