gain mastery
Example Sentences
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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
"Without such fantasies, the child fails to get to know his monster better, nor is he given suggestions as to how he may gain mastery over it," Bettelheim wrote in the study.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020
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
