Sentence examples for word master from inspiring English sources

Douglas Adams was truly a word master.

(Was that her title, Laurent? The word "master" is so charged under slavery).

When we were dockside, he wore a khaki shirt with epaulettes and matching shorts or a pressed orange jumpsuit embroidered with the word "Master".

"He did not understand that the kind of world he wanted to create was doomed before he had even spoken the first syllable of the word master".

The rapist hit him so hard with the lock that the word "Master" -- the brand of lock -- could be read on his forehead, and four years later, the circular mark was still visible to the Human Rights Watch researchers.

The tenor of the meeting reminded many of similar ones between Saddam Hussein and his commanders, which featured fawning speeches praising him, the use of the word "master" when addressing him, and a recitation by a nationalist poet.

It comes preloaded with a 2,500 word master-list of grocery items.

Being with these magical word masters and best of friends on such an important occasion was a total treat.

But he also speculates on, say, the difference between being "naked" and "nude," and often his advice comes from the standpoint of a rebel: "Learn how expert writers break the rules in run-on sentences," a section begins; "Learn seven ways to invent words"; "Master the uses of nonstandard English".

In other words: master the form you want to operate in, get experience, be willing to be imperfect, and then develop the confidence to play within that form, to develop your own style.

As Humpty Dumpty told Alice, the question is whether words master us, or we master them.