Sentence examples for they were prominent from inspiring English sources

They were prominent in Chicago social circles.

Loaded, by the way, Ms. Huber's family was not, but they were prominent in Staten Island.

They were prominent on the downtown club scene for the next five years.

They were prominent in liberal politics prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917.

They were prominent among the innovators who related those events to society's workaday concerns and cultural patterns.

Their work on the stage and screen earned them accolades, and they were prominent voices in the civil rights movement.

They are prominent in public life too.

But they are prominent in their fields.

They are prominent in all walks of life, including politics.

Muslims are also significantly represented in all towns of Eritrea, where they are prominent in trade.

They are prominent near both margins of the Atlantic and in the northeast Pacific.