Sentence examples for largely known for from inspiring English sources

Around Detroit, Mr. Ford is largely known for his work as a civic booster and charity fund-raiser.

Although Doubletree is largely known for its suburban locations, Hilton has been broadening the chain's approach and applying it to urban locations, Mr. Rutledge said.

He's played by Kad Merad, a French-Algerian actor largely known for his comedic work and who imbues this character with a similarly exaggerated physical presence.

Bark beetles are largely known for their ability to undergo intermittent population eruptions that transform entire landscapes and pose significant economic hardships.

Annabelle Selldorf is a New York architect largely known for refined art-gallery interiors, and for a terra-cotta-clad apartment building on Eleventh Avenue whose residents, including….

By 1985, when Yemane Meresie bought Sav-On Liquors, the street was largely known for the prostitutes and drug dealers who frequented it.

The show is "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," the 1965 musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane about extrasensory perception and reincarnation, today largely known only for its title song and a lumpy movie version starring Barbra Streisand.

Urbana-Champaign is largely known outside Illinois for two people: David Foster Wallace, who grew up there, and Marc Andreessen, who invented the first widely adopted graphical web browser as a student at the university.

Lani, largely known before this for his bad-boy antics, rewarded the extensive conditioning program given to him by Japanese trainer Mikio Matsunaga by finishing third.

Compare this with the historian Robert Proctor's "Cancer Wars" (1995), which bluntly states, "The causes of cancer are largely known — and have been for quite some time.

For scientists like Charles Davis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, however, the plants have — until now — largely been known for their mysterious nature.