How to Use grand master in a Sentence

grand master

noun
  • The mix is sure to be a favorite among fans of the grand master.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • Big grand master plans, in the past, have cost a lot of money.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • After all, this is about winning a football game, not gathering grand master bridge points.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • So if there’s no grand master plan to oust Hagekhalil, why all the allegations and intrigue?
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The artist Cai Guo-Qiang returned, as well, as grand master of fireworks.
    — Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2022
  • It could only be explained by some intricate notation, like a long chess game between grand masters.
    — Stefan Beck, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • What sport combines the intensity of a high-wire circus act with the strategic thinking of a grand master chess match?
    — Eric Zillmer, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Chess grand master Anatoly Karpov is 75.
    — ABC News, 4 May 2026
  • Its online schedule now features a who’s who of chess grand masters who provide content for users almost 24 hours a day.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And the two of them [Madigan and McClain] were grand masters of corruption.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Twenty-five years ago Garry Kasparov became the first chess grand master to lose to a computer.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Stubbs, whose 300th birthday is this year, was regarded as the grand master painter of people and animals at the time.
    — James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2024
  • Van Wely is a chess grand master and Dutch chess champion, who was once ranked in the top 10 chess players in the world.
    — Maria Konnikova, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
  • Peter Svidler, Russian chess grand master, usually tweets about chess, wordle and dogs.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • For one thing, a mediocre player could amass an undefeated record by beating up on newbies while a grand master wins some and loses some against other grand masters.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • For one thing, his coach, the grand master Vishnu Prasanna, eschewed computer chess engines for young players.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • His stiff, dutiful portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, the grand master of the order, hangs in the Louvre.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The grand master and manager of Penn Station, Alexander Cassatt, was among the most interesting men of the time.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Tan stopped by Screen Gab recently to discuss the grand master who inspired his performance, his context-specific comfort watches and more.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to the awards, Donna Andrews and Lee Child were announced as the 2026 grand masters.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The story traces a murder at the Louvre museum of a popular curator and Priory of Sion grand master.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • While Hou, Taiwan cinema’s grand master, may recently have retired due to ill health, there may be more to come from Taiwan’s younger generation.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Many of the lodge’s records were destroyed in the city’s 1901 fire, but Urso found evidence in other archives that Darnes wasn’t just a member but a grand master.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Christopher’s character has shades of the grand masters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • More than two years ago, Carlsen abruptly quit a tournament and insinuated that a young American grand master, Hans Niemann, was cheating.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
  • So for the first time, there will be racing on Friday morning, with singles events for the senior veteran, veteran, grand master, and senior master categories, and doubles events for the senior and grand masters.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The Knights' governance crisis was sparked by a condom distribution scandal that ended when Pope Francis intervened to oust the Knights' previous grand master.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • If Darwin was the messenger from There, filing from afar to Victorian England, Attenborough is the grand master of Here.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • In a rematch after an upgrade, IBM computer Deep Blue defeated chess grand master Garry Kasparov.
    — USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • Over the next 600 pages, Grayling proceeds to summarize the thinking of philosophy’s grand masters from the pre-Socratics to the modern analytic philosophers of language.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019

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