Example Sentences

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“Who wants to accept this year’s prize from a reduced, badly wounded and ill-famed group?” he asked.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2018

On July 22 two Iraqi prisons came under attack and around 500 men, including some top militants leaders, escaped from ill-famed Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons...

From Time • Aug. 6, 2013

Theron Lamar Caudle, 64, ill-famed head of the Justice Department's tax division during the Truman Administration; of a heart attack; in Wadesboro, N.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the body of a soldier of Japan's veteran, ill-famed 18th Division, soldiers found a bit of Nipponese poesy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tradition, he explained, of that ill-famed forest of Velletri, now extirpated.

From Alone by Douglas, Norman