Example sentences for: greats

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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