Sentence examples for was proverbial for from inspiring English sources
The wrath of Artemis was proverbial, for to it myth attributed wild nature's hostility to humans.
This gold was proverbial for its purity until the 10th century.
In the later tradition, he was famous for the simplicity of his life and "the dinner of Iccus" was proverbial for plain fare.
The rapidity with which falsity travels has been proverbial for centuries: "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it," wrote Swift in 1710.
BEE hives are proverbial models of order.
His strength and balance were proverbial.
+ While I would normally be tempted to watch a bowl game or two on Jan . 3 your article was the proverbial "straw" for me, and I will add college football to the heap of discarded spectator sports like the N.F.L. and N.B.A. Gary Pett Northbrook, Ill.
For our university presidents, this was a proverbial no-brainer".
For those who drove these buses in the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, life was the proverbial bowl of cherries.
It's the proverbial warning for England.
This investment impacted rural, urban, Republican, Democrat, gay, straight and all shades of the ethnic diaspora--these investments were the proverbial bootstrap for many first-generation college graduates.
