How to Use infamous in a Sentence

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• He committed an infamous crime.
• No, not the ones from the last three years but the infamous ones from all the decades gone by?
  — Roshan Radhakrishnan, Quartz India, 26 Aug. 2019
• Above is the infamous plane shadow near the bottom of the screen.
  — Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2020
• The movie was infamous — denounced by the pope and by Adolf Hitler.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Here, the stories behind some of the most infamous videos you weren't meant to see.
  — The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 19 Mar. 2018
• At Duke, Allen was infamous for tripping and putting his foot in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 6 July 2018
• But Burmese pythons may be the most infamous invaders of all.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• During that trip, they got caught up in one of the most infamous episodes of the Vietnam War.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• What about the episode concerning a tape from the infamous dossier?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
• But rich enough to shop at the infamous Whole Paycheck?
  — SELF, 24 Aug. 2020
• Her role in this episode is boiled down to her most infamous look of all: the Revenge Dress.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2022
• The grounds have a tennis court, a guest house, a pool, and that infamous grotto.
  — Megan Friedman, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2017
• Qn: That part of the SF bay is infamous for soggy turf.
  — Seattle Times Sports Staff, The Seattle Times, 18 Dec. 2018
• In the vid, Gabriel shares what was going down behind the scenes of that now infamous tweet.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 23 Aug. 2018
• The [expletive]-eating scene in that movie is still infamous 50 years later.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• Does Adam make fun of the headbands Leighton made infamous?
  — Hunter Harris, The Cut, 29 June 2017
• Those aren’t the ones that have made the company infamous, though.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Rush Limbaugh was nasty, the most infamous but not the only.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• The infamous live-action Death Note movie had a 36% from critics and a 23% from fans.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Now, Abrams is looking to get on the other side of the infamous comments.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 3 Oct. 2022
• The movie's blend of sci-fi and horror set the tone for the series and introduced the infamous Xenomorph.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
• The same goes for those capri pants which have made their infamous comeback.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 May 2024
• Kennedy will guest star as Medusa, the infamous gorgon.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• Hunter told me that the infamous cell-phone video of the incident had filled her with anger and disgust.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• The infamous eyedrops scene Nick Lachey had some jokes!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• There is no iconic photo of the event, but there is an infamous YouTube video.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Production added the infamous neon sign for the show, and the building has since been given a fresh coat of green paint.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• Nero was an infamous emperor who ruled Rome at the age of 16.
  — Joan Muwahed, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• Much of the record’s artwork and promotion was in reference to the infamous Heaven’s Gate religious group, whose mass suicide made national headlines in 1997.
  — Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
• Many innocent government workers lost their livelihoods, while others who were eventually exposed as treasonous—including the infamous spy Aldrich Ames—managed to dupe the tests.
  — Susan Saulny, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024