How to Use old master in a Sentence

old master

noun
Definition of old masternext
  • Their collection of old masters will be sold at the auction.
  • To get the best of both worlds, some old masters may have combined the two techniques.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes, the old master got stuck on a verse, forgetting a line in one of his 600 songs.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The rich palette of blacks and golds is worthy of an old master’s canvas.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
  • When her old master tracks her down, she is confronted by the past.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • For four nights before the concert, the old master had trouble sleeping.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This is an old master who has dispensed with tools and flourishes.
    — Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • James shoots a superb 60 percent inside the line this season, using the paint like an old master.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The old masters never get old, and the German ex-pressionists were legends.
    — Christine Whitney, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
  • It was supposed to teach us to leave behind the deep space of old master pictures and love modern art’s flatness instead.
    — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The war ended, the old masters came back, and the master class spent freely in organizing restless whites to suppress black votes.
    — Allen Guelzo, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • In front of you, there is a line of stunning European old master paintings to observe and explore.
    — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Short Gallery Collection of prints and old master drawings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In one pivotal scene, Juliette Binoche visits a gallery where an old master’s work, revered for years, had been revealed to be a student copy.
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2018
  • To take that idea and flip it, crafting an R&B record where the melodies are sampled, recalls how the actual Pablo Picasso treated the work of the old masters.
    — refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
  • In the film, shot in the early ‘70s, Bogdanovich played a young film director paying respect to an old master, played by John Huston.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Henry Pettifer, an expert in old masters at Christie’s auction house, just found two.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • As the story goes, the old master found a kindred soul in the young king, whose patronage would be all but unconditional.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The original kitchen was gutted and turned into a mudroom and walk-in pantry, and the old master bedroom became the new kitchen location.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Baca is realistic yet sanguine about the end of the old ways of thinking, the old master narratives of history.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • By joining up with the Rebellion, she was eventually reunited with her old master, who had since donned the iconic black helmet and sold his soul to the Dark Side.
    — ELLE, 8 Apr. 2022
  • In calligraphy, the idea is to replicate the old masters’ techniques, thereby refining your own.
    — Jerrine Tan, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • The series saw old master paintings reproduced on a range of handbags, with the artists’ names emblazoned in the manner of a fashion brand, bringing a dose of Koons’s signature acid kitsch.
    — Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The museum, still fledgling, missed many of the old masters bargains and wanted a signature specialty.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Regnier, a 17th-century painter, comes from a lineage of European old masters.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Twenty-five years ago, London’s Courtauld Gallery received an alarming tip: An anonymous caller claimed that 11 of the gallery’s old master paintings weren’t genuine.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • The lushness of the imagery is exquisite, turning the visual language of a psychosexual thriller into the evocative work of an old master.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • No wonder then, that Gagosian gallery even added a Gstaad outpost, while there are countless contemporary and old master showcases in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2023
  • There were copies of old master paintings for its collaboration with Jeff Koons, who affixed large gold and silver metallic letters on the handbags with the name of each artist represented on the bag.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Whether or not her guardian turns up an old master painting in storage that might enable Birgit to live an independent life, her most precious work may be a self-portrait that is still in her apartment.
    — John Leland Rutu Modan, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022

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