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How to use masterpiece in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Masterpiece means a piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career. Example: “Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.”

Examples of masterpiece by meaning

nounA work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship.

  • Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.
  • It would hardly be an overstatement to describe Drummond's next design as an outstanding British locomotive class, and possibly his masterpiece.1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774
  • Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45

More sentences with masterpiece

  • The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.From the entry drip
  • This midcentury masterpiece was overlooked at the time it was created.From the entry midcentury
  • I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.From the entry music
  • In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.From the entry capture
  • The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.From the entry inspired
  • He endured a fair share of criticism during his lifetime, but his works are now universally considered to be masterpieces.From the entry fair share
  • They looked for “superlatives” like “masterpiece,” “genius” and “great” used to describe Russian literature and culture.2023 December 29, Orysia Hrudka, “US academia still in thrall of “great Russia” myth”, in Euromaidan Press. From the entry glowing
  • For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion.2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7. From the entry kill it with fire
  • While Colossal Man is no masterpiece of screencraft, the script is much better than 50 Foot Woman's.2009, Bill Warren, Bill Thomas, Keep Watching the Skies!. From the entry screencraft
  • The Three Kingdom jade cup found in a tomb in the Jianxi district is a masterpiece.2009, Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande, Antony White, China: Museums, Odyssey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 121. From the entry Jianxi
  • Triple-click the lorem ipsum of the text placeholder and begin typing your masterpiece.2007, Steven Sande, Take Control of iWeb: iLife '06 Edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry lorem ipsum
  • Michener saw fit to include an epilogue entitled “Reflections,” a masterpiece of self-delusion.1999, Joe Queenan, Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon, →ISBN. From the entry megahack
  • It is a fine comic novel with a truly Wavian subject, but no masterpiece.1999, David Wykes, “A Legitimate Contribution to the War Effort: 1939–51”, in Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life, Basingstoke, Hants.; London…. From the entry over-value
  • Burgess himself is very careful to welcome the republication by Virago of ‘the masterpiece of Dorothy Richardson’.1991, Christine Brooke-Rose, Stories, Theories and Things, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry mistresspiece
  • She turned out a script that was a masterpiece of its kind.1943, Deems Taylor, “The Twenties”, in A Pictorial History of the Movies, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 116, column 2. From the entry little-known
  • Each masterpiece in a fluted silver dish, silver candies sprinkled on the pink whipped cream!1936 August–September, Pearl Norton Swet, “The Medici Boots”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and…. From the entry tortoni
  • She is a masterpiece of feminine irritatingness, irritating even to read about, yet painfully true to life.1905 May 1, The Keeper of the Review Bookshop [pseudonym], “The Review’s Bookshop”, in W[illiam] T[homas] Stead, editor, The Review of…. From the entry irritatingness
  • Marge exclaims that David is a masterpiece.2023 April 8, Atanu Biswas, “How Michelangelo’s David continues to scandalise many”, in The Economic Times. From the entry DeSantisian
  • Many masterpieces of Soviet constructivism are now crumbling under capitalism, replaced by pastiche architecture or pale replicas of former buildings.2015 May 5, Athlyn Cathcart-Keays, “Moscow's Narkomfin building: Soviet blueprint for collective living – a history of cities in 50…. From the entry constructivism
  • A final tidy-up and his masterpiece is complete.2014 November 20, “Courtship”, in Life Story, episode 5 (TV series), spoken by David Attenborough, via BBC. From the entry tidy-up
  • She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138. From the entry rapture
  • This movement was widely considered Cal's batting masterpiece.2010 May, Gar Ryness [i.e., George A. Ryness IV]; Caleb Dewart, “Cal Ripken Jr.”, in Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball, 1st…. From the entry stance
  • Its rickety shelves, spread over four floors, are crammed with American masterpieces from the likes of Hemmingway and Flannery O’Connor.2009 June 8, Derbhile Dromey, “10 best bookshops in the world”, in Irish Independent. From the entry ABC
  • “Glenn, why on Earth would you redecorate this masterpiece?2009 August 20, Michael D. Eisner, Alex Berger, Eric Fogel, “Pimp My RV” (7:13 from the start), in Glenn Martin, DDS, season 1, episode 3…. From the entry snarkasm
  • Oh dear, is that your baby getting unpacifiably hysterical just as you're ready to create an amazing decoupage masterpiece?2008, Abby Pecoriello, Crafty Mama, page 13. From the entry unpacifiably
  • Her masterpiece, the “ghetto burger,” is a two-patty cheeseburger tricked out with bacon that she tends closely in a fryolator.2007, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2007, page 271. From the entry fryolator
  • Technique : The Überlingen heraldic window is a technical masterpiece.2001, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Helen Jackson Zakin, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest…. From the entry kleestengel
  • Often described as "the Citizen Kane of dismemberment movies," this cult-movie masterpiece set the standards for the "bizarros-who-turn-their-home-into-a-human-slaughterhouse" horror genre.1997, Harold Schechter, The Manly Movie Guide, Boulevard, →ISBN. From the entry bizarro
  • That boy, Louis, is in his way a masterpiece.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry reversible
  • And steady never created a masterpiece.2008, Bruce Grierson, U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?, Bloomsbury USA, page 56. From the entry Ned Flanders
  • You look at his stuff and imagine the sociorealist masterpiece he might produce if he were to engage in some heroic Steinbeckian research.2007 November 11, Jim Windolf, “Asian Confusion”, in New York Times. From the entry sociorealist
  • The painting is a conversation piece without conversation and rightly regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale.2001, Jules David Prown, Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture, Yale University Press, →ISBN. From the entry conversation piece
  • Just buy all the supplies required, make sure you have a hot glue gun on hand; then have everyone create their own "eggsquisite" masterpiece!2001, Gordana Mosher, Liliana Pavicic, More than Just... Dinner and a Movie, Burlington, Ont.: Spice of Life Books Inc., →ISBN, page 104. From the entry eggsquisite
  • I do not know if he wrote his own script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk was a masterpiece of intempestivity.1974, Michael Pertwee, Name Dropping: The Autobiography of Michael Pertwee, Frewin, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry intempestivity
  • Moreover, the exquisite art of making textiles "ajoure" created masterpieces of design which at one time graced and embellished thousands of vernerated altars throughout Christendom.1917, American Architect and Architecture - Volume 112, page 235. From the entry ajoure
  • If you told even the most loyal residents of Barking that their station was a masterpiece they’d probably think you were three stops short of Dagenham.2019 March 1, “Evening Standard comment: […] Barking is just bellissimo”, in George Osborne, editor, Evening Standard, London: Evening…. From the entry three stops short of Dagenham
  • You made me finally understand the impulse to show people baby photos, because I accosted everyone I spoke to in the last year to show them your Dumbledorean masterpiece.2018, Irvin Khaytman, The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, →ISBN. From the entry Dumbledorean

Meaning of masterpiece

  1. noun A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.
  2. noun A work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship.
  3. noun A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild.

Full definition of masterpiece

Questions about masterpiece in a sentence

How do you use masterpiece in a sentence?
Masterpiece is used as a noun. For example: “Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.”
What is a short sentence with masterpiece?
“And steady never created a masterpiece.”
What does masterpiece mean?
Masterpiece means a piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.

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