1.   It was not, however, a storybook finish to an illustrious career.

2.   She has had an illustrious career.

3.   He has had an illustrious military career.

4.   And perhaps no one felt the sting worse than Azumah Nelson, the three-time world champion who may have fought the last fight of an illustrious career.

5.   At this point in his illustrious career, Clapton has chosen to make a Stevie Winwood record, and not even a good one at that.

6.   A fan favorite while he played the final five seasons of his illustrious career with the Stars, Carbonneau joins a rebuilding Canadiens franchise as supervisor of prospect development.

7.   A longtime rival on the down side of an illustrious career provided Steffi Graf with a surprisingly strong test Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Pathmark Tennis Classic.

8.   Flinn took the heat for the affair and suffered an abrupt end to an illustrious career.

9.   For the fourth time in his illustrious coaching career, Reeves took his team to the mountaintop only to be denied.

10.   He has been poked and prodded and monitored throughout his illustrious career.