Masterly Definition

Masterly Sentence Examples

• He showed extraordinary energy, resource and military talent in stemming the advance of the royalists, who now followed up their victories by advancing into the association; he defeated them at Gainsborough on the 28th of July, and managed a masterly retreat before overwhelming numbers to Lincoln, while the victory on the 11th of October at Winceby finally secured the association, and maintained the wedge which prevented the junction of the royalists in the north with the king in the south.

• This policy he pursued with masterly skill.

• James Ward's masterly criticism of Herbert Spencer (Naturalism and Agnosticism) has been mentioned above.

• This masterly winter-campaign first revealed Gdrgei's military genius, and the discipline of that terrible month of marching and counter-marching had hardened his recruits into veterans whom his country regarded with pride and his country's enemies with respect.

• But as a translator Plautus is nothing less than masterly.