Sentence examples for to fame it from inspiring English sources

In fact, it is this feat of endurance that has given the cinema its best claim to fame: it is the longest-running single-screen cinema in Britain in continuous use, which can easily be subbed down to the phrase "Britain's oldest cinema" without too much sleight of hand.

Tracing the nine months that propelled Hendrix to fame, it hopes to evoke a slice of psychedelic 1960s London and its haze of music.Women singers will not be left out in 2013.

And now, the Empire State Building has a new claim to fame: it has gone public.

Such is the gold rush to fame, it is impossible to take pop talk about cash at face value.

You can imagine my chagrin when I learned that Maysville's owners had in fact named the restaurant after the town's secondary claim to fame: it is also the birthplace of Kentucky bourbon.

But admirable hole-digging isn't Broadway's only claim to fame – it is also a favourite of Quentin Tarantino, who chose the venue for the UK premiere of Reservoir Dogs, and has a screening room designed by Nottingham designer Paul Smith.

Suddenly catapulted to literary fame, it was precisely this stubborn waywardness that allowed McCabe to simply concentrate on his next book: The Dead School, published in 1995.

There's probably a lot of people who might see it as a ticket to fame, like it's some kind of shortcut, so they don't have to pay for Groundlings classes or something.

Until now, Brunete's claim to fame, if it had one, was that it sustained heavy damage in the Spanish Civil War.

It's a quicker route to fame, but it's not an easier one.

Later, the label found its biggest claim to fame when it signed the Smiths (and, later still, another coup with the Strokes).