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"Mastery" in a Sentence (28 examples)
The two candidates are struggling for mastery.
I had complete mastery over my feeling.
He has mastery of his temper.
He had complete mastery over the necessary mathematics formula.
It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Use makes mastery.
By the time human civilization was a million years old, it had achieved mastery of faster-than-lightspeed voyages.
A good mastery of these idiomatic expressions and skillful use of them in writing essays.
Language learners sometimes marvel that even two-year-olds can speak French; but two-year-olds can't speak much French; and many will be improving their mastery until the end.
Drawing on my fine mastery of the English language, I said nothing.
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If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
The voice of them that shout for mastery.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
He […]could attain to a mastery in all languages.
The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
At Tebay however, he began to get the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.
[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]
Rury has given the word for some rare sport — a bout of games and masteries between me and Marcos Serkman to prove which is the better man.
Come, Paolo, we two have never held / A mastery between us — tell me out!
Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.
That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.
By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.
Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.
To accomplish this is a great mastery, a rare mastery: but it is an accomplishment that seems to have been Rowlandson's easily whenever he would.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.
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