Example sentences for: masterly

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

  • Titian displays his masterly use of color and light in The Concert (Hall 5, Venus), a haunting portrait of The Englishman and bare-breasted Magdalen (Hall 6, Apollo).

  • Of the 13th-century capital, Marco Polo wrote that “the whole interior of the city is laid out in squares like a chessboard with such masterly precision that no description can do justice to it” — a pattern Beijing retains to this day.

  • The biography itself, which uses unpublished diaries and untapped Cuban government archives, is praised for having done a "masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth" (Peter Canby, the New York Times Book Review ). The Weekly Standard 's Stephen Schwartz calls it tainted for having received "official support" from the Castro regime and for abetting a Che revival.

  • In the central Stanza della Segnatura are the two masterly frescoes, Dispute over the Holy Sacrament and the famous School of Athens, confronting theological with philosophical wisdom.

  • Paul Korshin (Pennsylvania) supplies a masterly analysis of Johnson's conversation as recorded by Boswell, sometimes a bit long after the fact.


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