Sentence examples for that illustrious from inspiring English sources

And now, at long last, William Hone rejoins that illustrious throng.

That might explain the city's gravitation toward animals like Gus, that illustrious polar bear at the Central Park Zoo, who had to be euthanized this week at 27 after developing a tumor.

Yet, with the possible exception of the original melody of the derided "Livery Stable Blues," no composition by a black composer was played at Aeolian Hall that illustrious day; in accord with the standards of the times, no black musician performed.

Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, who turns 80 this year, has long inhabited that illustrious pantheon of African literary greats; in 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize as an author "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence".

In recent years, that illustrious list has included Jude Law, David Tennant and Ralph Fiennes. .

In September, it decided that Illustrious would become the trials and training carrier for the Home Fleet and her repairs were changed into a lengthy refit that lasted until June 1946.

Jodha knew that her illustrious husband must have had witchcraft in his blood.

He is besotted with objects that possess illustrious or peculiar histories.

"I testify," he wrote, "that my illustrious father, that sainted man, suffered greatly on account of this.

His father, Didier van Themsche, ran a racing stable in Normandy that produced illustrious horses like Ourasi, and wanted his son to be a jockey, but Mr. van Themsche resisted.

Borgonovo told me what Alessandro Mazzena Lona, the editor of Il Piccolo, had said: that the illustrious Debenedetti name was Tommaso's calling card.