How to Use famously in a Sentence

famously

adverb
  • The executive famously insisted on riding the bus to work every day.
  • Steinbrenner famously pulled to the side of the road and called Judge.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • At the Golden Globe Awards in 1990, Roberts famously wore a suit and tie.
    — Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The Wire is, of course, famously set on the streets of Baltimore.
    — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Harris famously wore Chucks with her pearls in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The three troubadours first famously shared the stage at the first Farm Aid benefit concert in 1985.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And Fury Road, a movie with famously few lines of dialogue, left a lot of blanks.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • The pair famously travel to see both of their sons play throughout the season.
    — CBS News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Justin Bieber was famously close with Lentz, even briefly moving in with the pastor in 2014.
    — Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • The pair have famously gone on to make eight films together.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that Reginald is the size of a small horse and Pearl is as small as an apple didn't stop them from getting along famously.
    — CBS News, 3 May 2025
  • So, the sisters met each other in Dublin at the show where Swift famously got briefly stuck on a platform mid-show.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In March 2015, Malik famously quit One Direction amid the band's world tour at the time.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • While a few famously got lost on their way to port, this would ultimately be the last.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • British socialite more famously known as the Duchess of Argyll.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The two-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment spans 1,700 square feet and the unit once famously housed the painter’s studio, as well.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 May 2023
  • In the Antarctic Ocean, orcas famously create waves to wash seals off ice floes.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Fall is the best season to visit, thanks to the state’s famously vibrant fall foliage.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, though the writer famously didn't like the changes that director Stanley Kubrick made.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This most famously came to light with the exposure of the Panama Papers.
    — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Page and Brin then moved their offices to a garage, where the company is famously known to have started.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022
  • And then, famously, through bad contracts, John Fogerty lost all of his songs.
    — Hank Shteamer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • At the beginning of the ground invasion in Iraq in 2003, David Petraeus, of course, famously asked the question, tell me how this ends.
    — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • And scientists are, famously, many of us, on the spectrum.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The evolution of the famously well-coiffed band is the topic of a Hulu and Disney+ docuseries coming out next month.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • In 2000, it was famously featured in a sing-along bus scene in Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The icon — plastered on posters all over her room, his face emblazoned on her T-shirts — had famously been dead for decades.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Clearly, that $75 jump wasn’t enough to dissuade even the famously spendthrifty younger consumers.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Actor Noah Wyle famously skipped his opportunity while promoting The Pitt because of a dancing mishap in 1984 that still haunts him.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 19 May 2025
  • At this point in the Trump show, the famously unpredictable president seems to be following a script as tired as any other long-running, low-brow procedural.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025

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