Sentence examples for minor fame from inspiring English sources

Cha-cha-cha!" — won him minor fame.

Now 90, he no longer remembers the books that he struggled to produce, that brought him professional fulfillment, friendships and minor fame.

Her minor fame rests on a decades-old series of sausage commercials that have lived on in the collective consciousness, much to her expressed irritation and secret pride.

Urbahn first met Rumsfeld as a Pentagon speechwriter, and was later chief of staff in Rumsfeld's private office, where he achieved minor fame by being the first to tweet early reports of Osama bin Laden's death.

Blinded by minor fame, maybe, he chose the applause of his mates in the clubs and bars around Birmingham rather than heed any of the well-meant advice of those who saw him squandering a special talent.

With such an impeccable Hollywood pedigree, it seemed only natural that Lowe would become a star (brother Chad also found minor fame as a TV actor, and for a time was married to Hilary Swank).

Mr Dörflein, who died in 2008 of a heart attack at the age of 44, became a minor celebrity but his fame was nothing compared Knut's.

China Central Television has interviewed an Australian reporter, Angela Yu, who achieved minor internet fame after asking the National Development and Reform Commission a minute-long question about Sino-Australian relations in Chinese.

"At this same time," he said, "one of the other team members, James Turner, brought up the idea of using our minor Internet fame to do something to benefit Child's Play," a charity that donates video games and consoles to children's wards in hospitals around the world.

He was a minor celebrity before he died and a monstrous one afterward, holding on, to this day, to his fame and a rather tattered glory.

This minor upsurge in fame is timely: The Wire's fifth and final series starts in the UK this month.