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Example sentences for "well known"

  • This is well known to be the case with toads and frogs.

  • In both cases we carefully endeavour to avoid great expiratory pressure, the disadvantage of which is well known.

  • It is well known to those who have the charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is, when they really smile.

  • Infants whilst young do not shed tears or weep, as is well known to nurses and medical men.

  • Monsieur Gratiot and Colonel Auguste Chouteau and Madame Chouteau are names so well known in St. Louis that it is superfluous to say that such persons existed and were the foremost citizens of the community.

  • However puerile the undertaking, De Lemos at Natchez and Carondelet at New Orleans had not the reputation of sleeping at their posts, and their hatred for Americans was well known.

  • I was no little surprised that she should be so well known.

  • Similar views have, as is well known, been maintained by Oken in his mystical "Natur-Philosophie".

  • Touches, so well known as Camille Maupin, the great woman of letters, great by her intellect, great no less by her beauty.

  • Hawthorne, the novelist, is quite as well known in England as he is in his own country.

  • The government, however, as is well known, has taken upon itself to abridge the freedom of the press.

  • It is well known, for instance, that several species appeared somewhat earlier in the palaeozoic beds of North America than in those of Europe; time having apparently been required for their migration from the American to the European seas.

  • I am well known to be prudent," says Mr. George, composedly smoking.

  • The position I hold in reference to Sir Leicester is so well known to you that I can hardly imagine but that I must long have appeared in your eyes the natural person to make this discovery.

  • I imagine such signs are generally very well known," said Alexey Alexandrovitch.

  • He used to call the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, well known in society, a samovar, because she was always bubbling over with excitement.

  • I fear you are pessamistic," I said, reproving her but mildly, for Jane's school is well known to be harsh and uncompromizing.

  • This is well known in my Institution of Learning, where I am called impetuus and even rash.

  • Now I have a qualaty which is well known at school, and frequently used to obtain holadays and so on.

  • The above-named publication is well known as the best and most valuable one devoted to the Photographic Science in this country.

  • It is well known to the experienced Daguerreotypist, that different atmospheres have a decided effect upon the mercury in developing the Daguerreotype.

  • It is a well known fact, with which every observing practitioner is familiar, that a silver plate at a temperature of 45 deg.

  • The scent of this flower is well known as most delicious; one plant will perfume a large room.

  • Lord Torrington, who is well known as an agriculturist, was equally deceived.

  • This little controversy on the value of the herb tobacco passed between the renowned Euphues and that early but assiduous smoker, Sir Amyas Leigh, well known to readers of "Westward Ho.

  • Where is Alfred and the Cake--a subject which, as is well known, I discovered in my researches in history.

  • His retiring pension and allowances, it is well known, die with him.

  • The Baron, 'well known as an enthusiastic student of chemistry,' had heard of certain recent discoveries in connection with that science in the United States, and was anxious to investigate them personally.

  • Robin Oig's chosen friend was a young Englishman, Harry Wakefield by name, well known at every northern market, and in his way as much famed and honoured as our Highland driver of bullocks.

  • To all such persons Donald MacLeish was well known, and his introduction passed as current as if we had brought letters from some high chief of the country.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well 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:
    endless variety; flashed over; right straight; well able; well adapted; well aware; well beaten; well dressed; well educated; well for; well grown; well guarded; well illustrated; well knowing; well knowne; well laid; well nigh; well received; well rubbed; well shown; well skimmed; well taken; well told; well trained; well ventilated; well written