old master

Example Sentences

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Cook has never tired of relaying the lessons he learned from Jobs, but he also taught the old master something new.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

And, possibly, long enough to know how to get under the skin of an old master.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Now that it’s an auction house, the public can walk in free and view a regularly revolving slate of offerings, from rare books to old master paintings to dinosaur skeletons, depending on the sale calendar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

I was only about five years old when I left it, to go and live with my old master on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation; so that I was now between ten and eleven years old.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass