How to Use oeuvre in a Sentence
oeuvre
noun- The novel occupies a relatively minor position in the author's oeuvre.
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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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