How to Use masterwork in a Sentence

masterwork

noun

• This is the step that brought me closest to sipping a pour-over at home that tastes like his masterworks.
  — Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The gods can also forge masterworks with a snap of their fingers.
  — Bethanne Patrick, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• How this more obscure recording is the artist’s true masterwork, not the one Rolling Stone gave four stars.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
• Not that Springsteen has been a slough since that post-9/11 masterwork.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2018
• The first four are classics, justly hailed as masterworks, but the fifth has yet to be released, even in France.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024
• The movie is hailed as one of the true masterworks in the groundbreaking career of Godard, who died last year at age 91.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• But the cyclist who grew up in Homer hopes her first run at the Tour de France Femmes will act as a rough draft for a future masterwork in the race.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2022
• And in the grandest of the same would be elements found in Palm Beach masterworks: minarets, domes, bell towers.
  — John Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The end result is a 3-foot x 4.5-foot tribute to a Lotus masterwork.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2022
• All of that was to help the agency spread a masterwork of malicious software that the GRU had written.
  — NBC News, 22 July 2021
• The doll’s all-black get-up is a replica of Fleetwood Mac’s masterwork, Rumours.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Against all odds, Miller was able to release a one-of-a-kind, Oscar-winning masterwork.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• The first one feels like a David Lynch masterwork; the second feels like a David Lynch impersonator.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• Ai has since gone on to produce large Lego versions of many masterworks of Western art.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Citroen's Ami is still available for sale and is a masterwork of clever cheapness.
  — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 27 May 2024
• Although her show is no longer up, Kate will surely still enjoy the many masterworks on view tonight.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2019
• Yes, Duncan did get very close to the artist, who made a dog bowl for Duncan’s dog, Lump, and then painted him into a masterwork.
  — Darryl Levings, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Its sixth inning in an 8-4 win Thursday was a masterwork.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2021
• The 50th anniversary will be an occasion for the world to mark Gaye’s timeless and timely masterwork, not least in the city where the album was born.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2021
• In February, how does a distance of two feet sound, when three dozen of the silkscreen print masterworks will be in Georgia’s backyard?
  — Taylor Bruce, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• In February, how does a distance of two feet sound, when three dozen of the silkscreen print masterworks will be in Georgia’s backyard?
  — Taylor Bruce, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2010
• The masterwork's provenance can be traced back to the 16th century during the height of da Vinci's career, and is said to have been painted around the same time as the Mona Lisa.
  — Katherine McGrath, CNT, 11 Oct. 2017
• For all that Napoleon’s name had been erased, the masterwork is nevertheless haunted by him.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• These excerpts are a masterwork in opposites — shape and disarray, the known and the unknown, desert and blooming, doom and hope.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• Comparisons to the back half of David Bowie's 1977 masterwork Low wouldn't be unfounded.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• At the festival, the throngs rapped along rapturously to Tyler, the Creator, whose stage show was a masterwork of lone-wolf vigor.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• The novel has been rightly praised as a masterwork of realism, and the scenes are cacophonous with noises and pungent with smells.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• The acronym is never explained, but once it has been read aloud, any reader of Melville’s 1851 masterwork will know to expect a bad ending.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
• Indeed, Wes Craven's masterwork is a dizzying, witty display of what makes horror movies tick while being plenty scary in its own right.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024
• In between songs, the voice of auctioneer Lydia Frenet can be heard over the loudspeakers announcing the current bid for rolling masterworks crossing the auction block in one of the surrounding hangars.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024