How to Use masterwork in a Sentence

masterwork

noun
  • Here are some of the (streamable) masterworks that helped to do so.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The gods can also forge masterworks with a snap of their fingers.
    Bethanne Patrick, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Like Tolkien’s novel, this movie is a masterwork of craft.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Like Tolkien’s novel, this movie is a masterwork of craft.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Like Tolkien’s novel, this movie is a masterwork of craft.
    Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Sales come and go, and with them masterworks of every style, size, medium, and era.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chloé Zhao created a masterwork, but so did Ryan.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Ai has since gone on to produce large Lego versions of many masterworks of Western art.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • All are or more or less congruent with Shelley’s masterwork.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • As the film progresses, Bernard keeps re-writing his masterwork.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For all that Napoleon’s name had been erased, the masterwork is nevertheless haunted by him.
    National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • The idea of making a short film or a long masterwork — those definitions are much more nebulous now.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This upcoming revival aims to approach the masterwork from a new angle.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Against all odds, Miller was able to release a one-of-a-kind, Oscar-winning masterwork.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Nick’s search for the masterwork reveals his true identity to himself as Nick and as Dante.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • How is this masterwork of research relevant to the Black Atlantic world?
    Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 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
  • The doll’s all-black get-up is a replica of Fleetwood Mac’s masterwork, Rumours.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Kind of a contemporary genre masterwork.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 June 2026
  • Whether you’re drawn to ancient history or Renaissance masterworks, each site rewards those who take their time.
    Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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