gain mastery
Example Sentences
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Employees are encouraged to gain mastery over what Kier Eagan describes as the Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
The mythology surrounding the blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson claims he sold his soul to the devil sometime in the 1930s in order to gain mastery over his instrument.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021
Procedures are typically created, nurtured, and perfected in a few hospitals, and they spread as the apprentices gain mastery, move to new places, and promulgate their know-how: see one, do one, teach one.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
It's truly delightful watching a man who has spent his life being dismissed gain mastery over the city of King's Landing.
From Salon • May 7, 2019
It were better that nature have her way in relieving these long-pent emotions, and it was many minutes before the girl—little more than a child she was—could again gain mastery of herself.
From Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
