Example sentences for: greats

How can you use “greats” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Carlo Gambino, one of the greats, would never induct his own sons.

  • Santiago de Cuba is renowned for its contributions to Cuban musical culture; many of the greats of traditional sounds (Trío Matamoros, La Vieja Trova Santiaguera, and Eliades Ochoa, among others) all got their starts here.

  • Long compared to the Beatles, the British bad boys of pop "unabashedly lay claim to the pantheon of rock greats" (Elysa Gardner, the Los Angeles Times ). Other critics disagree.

  • By 1945, when the ungifted Pollock was still struggling with the greats, the critic Clement Greenberg was already heralding him as the baby Jesus of American art, noting that "he is not afraid to look ugly."

  • With adrenaline pumping, in the moment of realizing the dream of being a hero, with memories of the soccer greats running through her head, she did what soccer players do when they can't contain themselves.


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