How To Use Past master In A Sentence
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Trieste is a past master at avoiding history.
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I know everything of them by rote and I am a past master in tota re scibili.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He's a past master at getting free drinks out of people.
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She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
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All you can say is good luck to them, because as any data provider knows, banks are past masters when it comes to gaming the system.
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He's a past master at delaying meetings.
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Joe is a past master at getting invitations to parties.
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Nigel is a past master at sending out novices to win big handicaps and I've been following the latter named six-year-old's progress since riding him in a couple of uphill canters on the trainer's Gloucestershire gallops in March last year.
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Cairo is a sharper and a past master in knavery, and he will certainly slay the Jew and bring hither the dress.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The collection has won plaudits from golfing past master and BBC sports commentator Peter Allis.
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Although he claims that his films should not be read as autobiography, he is a past master at transforming his life into art.
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Believe me, we won't achieve very much next summer unless we are prepared to handle the sledging, because we will be up against people who are past masters at it.
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He is a learner, albeit a rapid learner, in the art of using the machinery of local self-government to enrich and beautify a State, but he is a past master in the matter of insight into the very core of democratic freedom.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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One the most accomplished anecdotalists was Henry McKenzie, author of The Man of Feeling, who counted among his friends Robert Burns, a past master of cutting wit.
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Trieste is a past master at avoiding history.
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The North is a past master in the game of brinksmanship-for-concessions, an irrational long-term strategy, but one that its economically marginalized and ideologically hyperbolized state and elite seem to depend upon more and more.
Bernard Rowan: Oh, My Korea
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She's a past master at the art of getting what she wants.
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All you can say is good luck to them, because as any data provider knows, banks are past masters when it comes to gaming the system.
Times, Sunday Times
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All you can say is good luck to them, because as any data provider knows, banks are past masters when it comes to gaming the system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trieste is a past master at avoiding history.
Times, Sunday Times
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The archer is a past master, but also a masterpiece, of devastating stillness.
Terracotta Army exhibition at the British Museum
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All you can say is good luck to them, because as any data provider knows, banks are past masters when it comes to gaming the system.
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What they will see is light in the form of an installation by that past master of lux deluxe, Dan Flavin.
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Breton, Surrealism's leader and a past master of character assassination, claimed in the final issue of Minotaure that Dali was a self-confessed racist, and Dali chose not to respond.
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She's a past master at exploiting other people.
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Captain Bermudez, that past master of astrogational chicanery, gave a derisive chuckle.
Perseus Spur
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Peter Mandelson is a past master of the politics of xenophilia; his warning against 'the politics of xenophobia' taking hold in the spontaneous direct action now being taken by British workers is his bunker moment.
UK Commentators
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She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.