Examples of masterwork in a Sentence
his most famous novel is regarded as a masterwork of Western literature
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Indeed, Wes Craven's masterwork is a dizzying, witty display of what makes horror movies tick while being plenty scary in its own right.
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
If deBessonet and her marvelous cast – including a towering Joshua Henry – come tantalizingly close to making all the necessary fixes, Ragtime remains a flawed masterwork of its era.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Discovering the genre through Americanized versions of Japanese masterworks, millennials explored world cinema largely through comparison.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, Orwell ends up fighting in the Spanish Civil War with a Republican militia before turning to literature to make his political stand, finishing his masterwork 1984 just months before his death in 1950.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
If deBessonet and her marvelous cast – including a towering Joshua Henry – come tantalizingly close to making all the necessary fixes, Ragtime remains a flawed masterwork of its era.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Discovering the genre through Americanized versions of Japanese masterworks, millennials explored world cinema largely through comparison.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, Orwell ends up fighting in the Spanish Civil War with a Republican militia before turning to literature to make his political stand, finishing his masterwork 1984 just months before his death in 1950.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Masterwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masterwork. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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