MASTERPIECE in a Sentence

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1. This is going to be my masterpiece.
2. His book, I must add, is a masterpiece.
3. The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur.
4. It's one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art.
5. The leading man did a portrait which was a masterpiece.

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 Meanings and Examples of MASTERPIECE
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masterpiece
 n.  chief excellence or great talent; outstanding work of art or craft
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The kingdom is upwards of three hundred leagues in diameter, and divided into thirty provinces; there the Fathers possess all, and the people nothing; it is a masterpiece of reason and justice.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
2  His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
3  An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
4  Satan must have occasionally crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thenardier dwelt, and have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
5  He felt that, since such men were to die, their death ought to be a masterpiece.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
6  The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH...
7  The leading man did a portrait which was a masterpiece.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  He had ringlets, and his masterpiece was strangely like an enlarged photograph.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  In the excitement of this masterpiece Tamoszius Kuszleika begins to edge in between the tables, making his way toward the head, where sits the bride.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  This is going to be my masterpiece.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
11  Perhaps, some day, the cruel look would have passed away from the scarlet sensitive mouth, and he might show to the world Basil Hallward's masterpiece.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
13  He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
14  A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again, but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage carpentery had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
15  It was a masterpiece of villainy, and he carried it out like a master.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Example Sentence:
1  It is a good movie, but I hesitate to use the word masterpiece for a movie I have seen only once.
2  This is the first canto of Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy.
3  The manual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of expository prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.
4  The artwork took 10 days using a single rabbit hair as a paint brush and a microscope is required to look at the masterpiece.
5  If writers complete this formula, the result will be a three-dimensional masterpiece with thoughts, emotions, and actions.
6  His book, I must add, is a masterpiece.
7  Her press conference was a masterpiece of media manipulation.
8  I know enough about art to recognize a masterpiece when I see one.
9  Dürer's famous watercolour and gouache drawing Young Hare is a masterpiece in observation; its impeccable rendering served as benchmark for centuries thereafter.
10  He has created some masterpieces I guess within rap music.
11  It's one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art.