How to Use old master in a Sentence

old master

noun
  • Their collection of old masters will be sold at the auction.
  • When her old master tracks her down, she is confronted by the past.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • So if these new ideas aren’t working out, why not return to the old master?
    — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025
  • To get the best of both worlds, some old masters may have combined the two techniques.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The rich palette of blacks and golds is worthy of an old master’s canvas.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This is an old master who has dispensed with tools and flourishes.
    — Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • For four nights before the concert, the old master had trouble sleeping.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Decades and decades later, someone approached him about finding the old masters.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • For many, the lustrous vehicles of past decades qualify as old masters.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • Don’t worry about limitations in talent, as not every painter can be an old master.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Henry Pettifer, an expert in old masters at Christie’s auction house, just found two.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • 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
  • The trio manages to subdue him and escape, though their old master remains determined to finish them off.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Get your comic books signed by a major talent in the industry, see paintings by two old masters in a whole new way or enjoy a night of laughs.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • In calligraphy, the idea is to replicate the old masters’ techniques, thereby refining your own.
    — Jerrine Tan, New York Times, 27 June 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
  • 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
  • The museum, still fledgling, missed many of the old masters bargains and wanted a signature specialty.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Several collections in South Africa contain old master paintings like this one.
    — Quartz, 22 May 2021
  • Regnier, a 17th-century painter, comes from a lineage of European old masters.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The 93-year-old master of contemporary art is the subject of a massive retrospective in Paris.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • When they’re done soaking in the old masters, Firestone says her American clients are especially eager to load up on luxury goods.
    — Meredith Lepore, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
  • 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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