Master

//ˈmɑːs.tə//

"Master" in a Sentence (45 examples)

It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.

You are the master of your own destiny.

All you have to do is try hard to master English.

Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

The master plan includes programs to provide employment as well as recreation.

It is difficult for foreigners to master Japanese.

The best way to master a foreign language is to go to the country where it is spoken.

It takes a great deal of practice to master a foreign language.

It is by no means easy to master a foreign language.

It takes years to master a foreign language.

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We are masters of the sea.

Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […].

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three—

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

Mark Twain was a master of fiction.

But that which chiefly distinguishes Addison from Swift, from Voltaire, from almost all the other great masters of ridicule, is the grace, the nobleness, the moral purity, which we find even in his merriment.

No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.

Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner; now I am the master. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a master of evil, Darth.

A turning point came earlier this year. In January 2000, the local Qigong master who treated me asked me to find Falun Gong material on the Internet for him.

Where there are little Maſters and Miſſes in a Houſe, they are uſually great Impediments to the Diverſions of the Servants;

She has a master in psychology.

He is a master of marine biology.

The band couldn't find the master, so they re-recorded their tracks.

Many modern recording artists value owning their masters.

The case was tried by a master, who concluded that the plaintiffs were the equitable owners of the property.[…]

a master wheel

a master database

The use of masters and submasters will enable suites of rooms to be controlled by one key.

a master performance

master batsman

In another minute she lay peaceful and motionless under the anæsthetic — a statue, immobile, yet expressionful, as though carved by some master hand.

master copy

Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.

Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'

It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.

[…]the wealth / That the world maſters.

He mastered in English at the state college.

a two-master

"I'm terribly sorry, Master Luke," apologized the droid.

The eldest son of Lord Forbes is known as the Master of Forbes.

...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.

Master of the Seasons of the Year, I call upon you and ask you to be here with me in this, my ritual.

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