How to Use virtuoso in a Sentence

virtuoso

noun

• He's a real virtuoso in the kitchen.
• On the stage, the virtuoso smiled and bowed, for the old man in the balcony was his tutor.
  — Loren A. Yadon, idahostatesman, 12 July 2018
• Like a jazz virtuoso, Hawkins is not one to stick to the sheet music.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2020
• Lafleur was the stylish virtuoso who spoiled the Stanley Cup dreams of kids all over New England in the late 1970s.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• The host, a virtuoso in the world of olives, takes us on a sensory journey.
  — Branded Content Contributor, Orange County Register, 8 Jan. 2024
• One of the marks of the virtuoso, in fact, is that the instrument and player can seem to be a single being.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• She’s an uncouth zoomer virtuoso who trained herself on YouTube and is too savvy to be used and abused.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Oct. 2022
• The piece calls for virtuoso chops, and Golka delivered the goods.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 June 2021
• In 1912, Peking opera virtuoso Mei Lanfang adapted the poem for the stage.
  — Martin Tsai, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• In How the Word is Passed, Smith wields his words like a virtuoso musician in concert.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• Todd Angilly, TD Garden’s superb anthem singer, is a virtuoso in the bend-and-adapt club.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• They will be joined by jazz piano virtuoso Richard Drexler.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• And his virtuoso stuff almost produced a wild comeback on the road.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Except for Paul on bass, none of them is a technical virtuoso, but the fusion, the blend — it’s there in sound and spirit.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
• Even if they were done with the skill and precision of a photo editing virtuoso, the message would ring out loud and clear.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
• Singers who spoke with me called her a virtuoso, a miracle worker, a life saver.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The virtuoso pianist expressed his sadness over the war’s toll.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2022
• Bronfman isn’t the go-to artist just for big, virtuoso showstoppers.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
• He is regarded as one of the sport’s most skillful artists, a virtuoso with a basketball in his hands.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Sharma, a virtuoso on the India hand drums known as tabla, gets to do a short preshow set while the house lights are still on in the auditorium.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• With all these pianists there is always the chance to discover a virtuoso.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2021
• Bochy was a virtuoso during the Giants’ three World Series runs.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Edison was a virtuoso in both fields, and financiers took notice.
  — Howard Schneider, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• But even back in the ’90s, Sheryl Crow was the kind of straight-up, middle-of-the-strike-zone, tasty-licks virtuoso of rock ‘n’ roll good times who seemed to have been put on earth to make people happy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
• And over the course of 10 minutes — knowing the whole time that Gee is watching from the other side of the two-way mirror — the cop plays the suspect like Frank is a virtuoso and Lane is his fiddle.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Sibelius played the violin from an early age and had hopes of becoming a virtuoso.
  — Tim Page, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Bassett pulled into the library with No. 4 in the back seat of his car, hoping to show the violin to Anna Karkowska, a virtuoso.
  — Patrick Raycraft, courant.com, 11 July 2019
• The director likens himself to a conductor and Pugh to his virtuoso.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• The second season, in which 25-year-old Jen (Máiréad Tyers, a virtuoso of the dry line delivery) is still waiting for her unique gift to reveal itself, is flat-out great.
  — Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 June 2024
• The result was a group of virtuosos jockeying for attention.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024