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Example sentences for "best known"

  • He is best known by his Lays of Ancient Rome, compositions which, like his prose writings, are historical in principle.

  • He is best known by Orion, an Epic Poem (1843).

  • It is likewise as a writer of vers de societe that Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, is best known, and is happiest.

  • Jung is best known by his Isagoge Phytoscopica (1678, ed.

  • Although it is as an anatomist that Nehemiah Grew is best known, his grasp of external morphology is perhaps even more remarkable.

  • His book begins with the research for which he is best known, namely that on transpiration.

  • Nevertheless, the final year of his residence in Africa saw the production of the first of the series of works on seaweeds by which his name will ever be best known.

  • The city is best known as a shipping centre of one of the richest iron-ore districts in the world, and its large and well-equipped ore docks are among its most prominent features.

  • He is best known by his marine chart (1569) and his atlas.

  • This order is best known by the genera Argania, Sideroxylon, Chrysophyllum, and Bumelia, all of which are stove or greenhouse plants.

  • To the general student Sir John Herschel is best known by the volume which he published under the title of "Outlines of Astronomy.

  • Perhaps the Astronomer Royal is best known to the general reading public by his excellent lectures on astronomy, delivered at the Ipswich Museum in 1848.

  • One of the achievements by which Sir John Herschel is best known is his invention of a method by which the orbits of binary stars could be determined.

  • Petrus [Peter] Chrysologus= is the name by which Peter, bishop of Ravenna, is best known.

  • He is best known by his “Doctrine of Divine Love.

  • Among the later Nestorian authors the best known is Ebed Jesus, Metropolitan of Nisibis, who died in A.

  • Winer= of Leipzig is best known by his “Grammar of New Testament Greek,” first published in A.

  • Alain Chartier, best known to modern readers by the story of Margaret of Scotland's Kiss, was a writer of a somewhat similar character.

  • Dr Moore is best known as the author of Zeluco.

  • He is best known to the laity as the biographer of Robert Burns and the generous helper of the poet's widow and family.

  • Dr Watt is best known by his Bibliotheca Britannica (Edinburgh, 1819.

  • Why I have handled the matter in this method is best known to myself.

  • Why the townsmen chose to send me on this errand to my Lord, is best known to themselves, but it could not be for that they thought that I had favour with my Lord.

  • He is best known by his collection of moral and religious poems, called Divine Emblems, which were accompanied with quaint engraved illustrations.

  • He is best known by his heroic poem Gondibert, founded upon the reign of King Aribert of Lombardy, in the seventh century.

  • But he is best known by his Elegy upon Addison, which Dr.

  • Sanford, of the La Crosse State Normal School, is best known as an author of text books and pamphlets on history and related subjects.

  • It is, however, as a popular summer resort that Ballston Spa is best known.

  • He is best known, however, as a historian of the Huguenots.

  • Caesius Bassus is best known to us as the editor of the satires of Persius.

  • The Vernon Lee in the last line is a well-known authoress, Violet Paget, best known perhaps by her work entitled Euphorion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "best known" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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