Sentence examples for some illustrious from inspiring English sources

I was following in some illustrious footsteps.

In that aspiration, they have some illustrious company.

Spielberg joins some illustrious peers: JK Rowling, David Attenborough and Quentin Blake.

Mr. Gyenes has some illustrious company in making this particular executive journey.

You have some illustrious literary figures among your ancestors — Alexei and Leo Tolstoy, to name two.

Through the years, his songs have drawn some illustrious collaborators, including the likes of Ornette Coleman.

If it is some less illustrious young man, the portrait would have, as they say, only antiquarian interest.

Trying to get the conversation back on track, the hapless presenter throws some more illustrious rap names at the pair.

The Democratic organization encompassed the hacks and the high-minded, and some enjoyed illustrious careers, including Assembly speakers.

But why do so many people insist that the man from Stratford is an imposter, a fraud, a cover for some more illustrious name?

Our colleagues in the opinion department of the International Herald Tribune — and some very illustrious guests — look ahead to 2013, and find that even if great storms are rising, they are no reason to be forlorn.