Examples of tour de force in a Sentence

The book is a tour de force. Her performance in the play was a real tour de force.

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“Tour de force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tour%20de%20force. Accessed 18 May. 2022.

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