How to Use oeuvre in a Sentence

oeuvre

noun
  • The novel occupies a relatively minor position in the author's oeuvre.
  • This isn't the first time Moss has made the naked dress part of her style oeuvre.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The show is expansive, even for those well-versed in the artist’s oeuvre.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide work is one of the most prominent in Kusama’s vast oeuvre.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
  • From a wider angle, the whole oeuvre swelled into a mighty tide.
    Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The Game of Thrones franchise and the Taylor Sheridan oeuvre would be safe.
    Alex Cranz, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The Halloween episodes might be the most famous and beloved in the B99 oeuvre, but don't sleep on the Thanksgiving eps!
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The dark outlook is, however, of a piece with much of Spielberg’s oeuvre in the 2000s.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • Wise men say only fools rush in to a debate on Elvis' oeuvre.
    Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • Keira Knightley’s oeuvre alone is enough to sustain you for at least a week.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • For decades, Andy Warhol’s silkscreen portraits of Prince were a blip in his larger oeuvre.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
  • Still, his oeuvre is distinct from, and even equal to, his father’s.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Swift’s performance of the track seems to acknowledge the way that the song’s bridge has become one of the most beloved in her oeuvre.
    Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But there is something to be gleaned from the broader oeuvre of memes around Ivanka Trump.
    Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 2 July 2019
  • His own oeuvre seems to support that — but only at first glance.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But, perhaps predictably, the best bites of the night were the result of the chefs cooking in their respective oeuvres.
    Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • Crichton, who has the largest oeuvre on this list, released his first novel, Odds On, in 1966.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Other men limn the edges of his songs because Jones’s oeuvre is late-pub opera, smothered in onion gravy and tears.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That scene is the best and most thrilling of Marston’s oeuvre this critic has seen — quite possibly the best of her career thus far.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But Lady Day’s oeuvre isn’t just a bunch of morose torch songs and one protest song; rather, much of her best work is about the joy of living.
    Will Friedwald, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
  • His diverse oeuvre of paintings and prints span cityscapes, landscapes, and streetscapes.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • To write her new book, Lindy West went where few women have dared to go before—deep, deep in to Adam Sandler's oeuvre.
    Samantha Leach, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Timmy has quite the oeuvre for a tiny kitten who was born in 2017 or whenever.
    Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 12 July 2019
  • His mother left him there on the spot — an abandonment that would haunt his entire life and oeuvre.
    Elinor Hitt, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But the caliber and range of the surviving Agee’s oeuvre have long distinguished him.
    Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Yet this is true of nearly the entire series, if not the whole of Star’s oeuvre, in which even the bohemians are glamorous.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • So, where does this fit in the ever-expanding oeuvre of Mackenzie films?
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • For Roth scholars, there will always be the nagging frustration that one man alone got to see the full Roth oeuvre.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • But echoes like this are trivial compared to the more obvious areas of overlap between Sorkin’s oeuvre and Saturday Night.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The spring 2025 collection marks a new chapter in the designer’s ever-expanding oeuvre.
    Martino Carrera, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024

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