Example sentences for: greats

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

  • The Catalan opera greats Montserrat Caballé and Josep Carreras made their reputations singing at this Liceu, a monument of the Catalan Renaissance and refuge of the Catalan elite.

  • The AFI's list of all-time greats downplays the influence of credentialed taste-makers, cinema scholarship, and educated judgment.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • Both Roth and Allen hold forth on the subject of their favorite artists (for Roth, Céline and Kafka; for Allen, the old jazz greats Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton), but are less interested in the women's recommendations.


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