How to Use oeuvre in a Sentence

oeuvre

noun
  • The novel occupies a relatively minor position in the author's oeuvre.
  • This isn't the first time Moss has made the naked dress part of her style oeuvre.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The show is expansive, even for those well-versed in the artist’s oeuvre.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide work is one of the most prominent in Kusama’s vast oeuvre.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
  • From a wider angle, the whole oeuvre swelled into a mighty tide.
    Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The Game of Thrones franchise and the Taylor Sheridan oeuvre would be safe.
    Alex Cranz, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The Halloween episodes might be the most famous and beloved in the B99 oeuvre, but don't sleep on the Thanksgiving eps!
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The dark outlook is, however, of a piece with much of Spielberg’s oeuvre in the 2000s.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • Wise men say only fools rush in to a debate on Elvis' oeuvre.
    Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • Keira Knightley’s oeuvre alone is enough to sustain you for at least a week.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • For decades, Andy Warhol’s silkscreen portraits of Prince were a blip in his larger oeuvre.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
  • Still, his oeuvre is distinct from, and even equal to, his father’s.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Swift’s performance of the track seems to acknowledge the way that the song’s bridge has become one of the most beloved in her oeuvre.
    Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
  • His own oeuvre seems to support that — but only at first glance.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Crichton, who has the largest oeuvre on this list, released his first novel, Odds On, in 1966.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Other men limn the edges of his songs because Jones’s oeuvre is late-pub opera, smothered in onion gravy and tears.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But Lady Day’s oeuvre isn’t just a bunch of morose torch songs and one protest song; rather, much of her best work is about the joy of living.
    Will Friedwald, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
  • His diverse oeuvre of paintings and prints span cityscapes, landscapes, and streetscapes.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • His mother left him there on the spot — an abandonment that would haunt his entire life and oeuvre.
    Elinor Hitt, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But the caliber and range of the surviving Agee’s oeuvre have long distinguished him.
    Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Yet this is true of nearly the entire series, if not the whole of Star’s oeuvre, in which even the bohemians are glamorous.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • So, where does this fit in the ever-expanding oeuvre of Mackenzie films?
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • For Roth scholars, there will always be the nagging frustration that one man alone got to see the full Roth oeuvre.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • After all, good things showed up and happy outcomes are like hors d’ oeuvres.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • The Ghanaian star is building a truly top-tier oeuvre, and with a new album on deck for this year, there’s plenty more to come.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
  • El Arbi and Fallah are no strangers to the superhero oeuvre.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • No one in Dickens’s or Chekhov’s oeuvres is randomly evil for evil’s sake.
    Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2020
  • The most valuable item in the apartment has remained the most celebrated item in Elsheimer’s oeuvre.
    Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Her oeuvre is marked by a dedication to the strange and the unbelievable.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • To tell the story of Wallace Chan’s life, oeuvre as an artist and innovator over five decades of dedicated work.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

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