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
• The pop virtuoso turned 24 years old Thursday, and fans have hit the Web by the bunches to wish the Biebs a happy birthday.
  — Wandera Hussein, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But the Cavs stole Game 1 by a point in overtime, and James scored 43 in a virtuoso Game 2 performance.
  — Liam Quinn, Fox News, 7 May 2018
• 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
• The idea was that each piece would be a virtuoso caprice that was about the violin and the violinist.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• 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
• To insist that Basquiat was a virtuoso is to turn away from the paintings all over again, to miss their ultimate dare.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
• 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
• Over the course of nearly an hour’s worth of virtuoso writing, Strauss shows us images from his hike up a mountain and back home again.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Paisley is a guitar virtuoso and his skills were on display all night.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 17 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• But mainly Sunday offered a gripping exploration of what instruments can do when limits are stretched, what composers can do when genres are stretched and what virtuosos can do when techniques are stretched.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024