How to Use oeuvre in a Sentence

oeuvre

noun
  • The oeuvre features a swirling night sky and bright stars.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Hollinghurst’s oeuvre acts like a bridge for culture, as well.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This isn't the first time Moss has made the naked dress part of her style oeuvre.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2022
  • From a wider angle, the whole oeuvre swelled into a mighty tide.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • His own oeuvre seems to support that — but only at first glance.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The show is expansive, even for those well-versed in the artist’s oeuvre.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Still, his oeuvre is distinct from, and even equal to, his father’s.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Wise men say only fools rush in to a debate on Elvis' oeuvre.
    — Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • Springsteen’s oeuvre is full of such moments.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Keira Knightley’s oeuvre alone is enough to sustain you for at least a week.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • After all, good things showed up and happy outcomes are like hors d’ oeuvres.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • The cyclic nature of life and even time would play out across Michals’s oeuvre in the decades to come.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
  • His diverse oeuvre of paintings and prints span cityscapes, landscapes, and streetscapes.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The latest report to enter the oeuvre is a real doozy.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 19 Dec. 2025
  • His mother left him there on the spot — an abandonment that would haunt his entire life and oeuvre.
    — Elinor Hitt, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The series moves focus to the second book in Rice’s oeuvre.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • He was known for his close reading, and ability to inhale the entire oeuvres of his guests.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • So how did a young Czech director end up making a deep dive into him and his oeuvre?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • She has been weaned on the John Hughes oeuvre and the Karate Kid canon.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Other men limn the edges of his songs because Jones’s oeuvre is late-pub opera, smothered in onion gravy and tears.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide work is one of the most prominent in Kusama’s vast oeuvre.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Winning an Oscar just wouldn’t square with the underdog arc of his oeuvre.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • So, where does this fit in the ever-expanding oeuvre of Mackenzie films?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Both have shown musical chops in their respective oeuvres.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Dec. 2025
  • No one in Dickens’s or Chekhov’s oeuvres is randomly evil for evil’s sake.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2020
  • At the center of Export’s oeuvre was her own self-invention.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • For decades, Andy Warhol’s silkscreen portraits of Prince were a blip in his larger oeuvre.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
  • Swift’s performance of the track seems to acknowledge the way that the song’s bridge has become one of the most beloved in her oeuvre.
    — Vulture, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Swift’s performance of the track seems to acknowledge the way that the song’s bridge has become one of the most beloved in her oeuvre.
    — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But, perhaps predictably, the best bites of the night were the result of the chefs cooking in their respective oeuvres.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019

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