How to Use masterpiece in a Sentence

masterpiece

noun
  • Her study of apes is a masterpiece.
  • The painting was immediately recognized as a masterpiece.
  • Herman Melville's masterpiece was Moby-Dick.
  • Just like the work they're based on, these shoes are a downright masterpiece.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Parker Posey as the grande dame in a Chekhov masterpiece?
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And Sam is a masterpiece with all her talents and foibles.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2022
  • It has been hailed by some critics in Spain as a masterpiece.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The American Bankers Assn.’s letter to Gensler is a masterpiece of the genre.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • With help from an adult, kids of all ages can help create a masterpiece for mom.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The Kimbell’s a tasting menu of masterpieces but does depth well, too.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars OK, one star poor, no stars waste of time.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2022
  • Barkov had a masterpiece night with his two goals and two assists.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • This the latest masterpiece to be the focus of climate protests.
    Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Fried okra is a Southern masterpiece that can be paired with any rich, meaty main.
    Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Let your child play chef to come up with their smoothie masterpiece.
    Amy Morin, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • Four decades later, it is still hailed as a masterpiece.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Right off the bat, many hailed Renaissance as a masterpiece on all fronts.
    Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 29 July 2022
  • Be careful of over-mixing, though, or the masterpiece will turn brown.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 22 May 2024
  • The movie is a masterpiece of Hitchcock-style suspense.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Or the bloodbath and masterpiece that is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
    Joshua Ocampo, Men's Health, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Yes, most of us could make a car payment (or two) for the price of a room, but this Art Deco jewel is a masterpiece.
    Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Behind the Attic Wall is a masterpiece of the slow reveal, and still gives me goosebumps.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 27 Feb. 2023
  • So, keep reading to be one of the elite few allowed to read my CBD oil gummies masterpiece.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • For 60 minutes on the game clock, the Third Saturday in October was a masterpiece of the genre.
    al, 20 Oct. 2022
  • If the demands weren’t met, all 19 masterpieces would be destroyed on May 14.
    Theresa McKinney, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The masterpiece was awash with gray and lined in heavy black, the hilt adorned with a single ruby gem and framed by bone-white flowers with gray leaves.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • What grill master doesn’t want to brand their masterpiece?
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 9 Nov. 2022
  • And just like that, a grass-roots, gender-neutral masterpiece was born.
    The Editors, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
  • From historic masterpieces to incredible folk collections, these museums may be well worth the journey out of the major metro to visit.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Even the bed—a plush, temperature-regulating masterpiece—felt like it had been engineered specifically to cradle you into the best rest of your life.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024

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