Sentence examples for were known among from inspiring English sources

Most of the artifacts were known among dealers as trash, he wrote, although he used a trashier word than trash.

Though they left local girls alone, the Singh brothers were known among their neighbours for drunkenness, petty crime and occasional, unpredictable violence.

SARAH JAMES CHAPIN and Timothy Breese Miller were known among friends for being socially and politically aware, but neither was having much luck with relationships.

MICHAEL J. CUNNINGHAM Life With Micky C. Michael J. Cunningham and his wife, Teresa, were known among their friends for their theme parties.

Both were known among friends to be outgoing, but Becca Grossman, a classmate of Ms. Durollari's at N.Y.U., said she has an ethereal and introspective air.

They were known among English colonial traders as Flatheads because, like a number of other tribes of the Southeast, they practiced ritual head flattening on male infants.

Sexual phenomena are known among the protists.

This is known among economists as "market failure".

This erosion is known among pension specialists as "wearaway".

Passu is known among travelers for its trekking.

"Jimmy Carter is known, among many things, for raising houses.