How to Use grand master in a Sentence

grand master

noun
  • The mix is sure to be a favorite among fans of the grand master.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • Big grand master plans, in the past, have cost a lot of money.
    Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Van Wely is a chess grand master and Dutch chess champion, who was once ranked in the top 10 chess players in the world.
    Maria Konnikova, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
  • His stiff, dutiful portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, the grand master of the order, hangs in the Louvre.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Many of the lodge’s records were destroyed in the city’s 1901 fire, but Urso found evidence in other archives that Darnes wasn’t just a member but a grand master.
    Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Twenty-five years ago Garry Kasparov became the first chess grand master to lose to a computer.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • After all, this is about winning a football game, not gathering grand master bridge points.
    Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • It could only be explained by some intricate notation, like a long chess game between grand masters.
    Stefan Beck, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • An updated grand master suite includes two walk-in closets, a spacious shower stall and a soaking tub for a total of six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
    Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Peter Svidler, Russian chess grand master, usually tweets about chess, wordle and dogs.
    Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Over the next 600 pages, Grayling proceeds to summarize the thinking of philosophy’s grand masters from the pre-Socratics to the modern analytic philosophers of language.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • So for the first time, there will be racing on Friday morning, with singles events for the senior veteran, veteran, grand master, and senior master categories, and doubles events for the senior and grand masters.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Long before the Trump-era investigations, Manafort had established himself in Washington and abroad as a grand master of the political dark arts.
    Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The Knights' governance crisis was sparked by a condom distribution scandal that ended when Pope Francis intervened to oust the Knights' previous grand master.
    Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Five Northern California high school stoner buddies widely credited with creating the shorthand slang for getting high nearly 50 years ago now serve as the day's unofficial grand masters.
    Brad Branan, sacbee, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Not to be outdone, Richard Mille, grand master of alternative material innovation, is at the final stage of crafting a watch case from a material that relegates even unobtanium to the bush leagues by its sheer badassitude.
    Wei Koh, A-LIST, 3 Apr. 2018

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