Sample Sentences forconnoisseur (auto-selected)
-
•
He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. (source)connoisseurship = knowledge about and appreciation of
-
•
He's a connoisseur and prides himself on making it from scratch.† (source)
-
•
She is a connoisseur of pain the way others are connoisseurs of wine.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
This like a wine connoisseur dropping a name.† (source)
-
•
He unscrews the cap and lets it dangle and he takes a connoisseur's sniff of the action in the jug.† (source)
-
•
Ricky was a connoisseur of your-mom jokes, but this was apparently more than he could take.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
-
•
He had an emergency, he told Dede, but being a connoisseur of fear, she guessed he was afraid.† (source)
-
•
Billy did not want to see what happened next, and a clerk importuned him to come over and see some really hot stuff they kept under the counter for connoisseurs.† (source)
-
•
Aware that he was looking at a silver two-handled Jacobean mug, and that Hugh Whitbread admired condescendingly with airs of connoisseurship a Spanish necklace which he thought of asking the price of in case Evelyn might like it—still Richard was torpid; could not think or move.† (source)
-
•
Whatever her taste in television-play titles, or her aesthetics in general, a flicker came into her eyes—no more than a flicker, but a flicker—of connoisseurlike, if perverse, relish for her youngest, and only handsome, son's style of bullying.† (source)
-
•
A connoisseur of the latest styles, Mrs. Thomas was dressed this afternoon in a homemade yellow polka-dot dress she'd copied from a magazine profile of Audrey Hepburn.† (source)
-
•
And just as farmers love new, more efficient equipment, farmwives are real connoisseurs of household appliances: whole-house vacuum cleaners mounted in the walls, microwave ovens and Crock-Pots, chest freezers, through-the-door icemakers on refrigerators, heavy duty washers and dryers, pot-scrubbing dishwashers and electric deep fat fryers.† (source)
-
•
Ralph had something of this same quality, this appearance of thinking that life was a matter of connoisseurship; but in Ralph it was an anomaly, a kind of humorous excrescence, whereas in Mr. Osmond it was the keynote, and everything was in harmony with it.† (source)
-
•
Zizi al-Bakari, a connoisseur of art as well as jihadist terror, had regarded the line as proof of the painting's authenticity— and of the authenticity of the beautiful young American woman, a Harvard-educated art historian, who had sold it to him.† (source)
-
•
Among mountaineers and other connoisseurs of geologic form, Everest is not regarded as a particularly comely peak.† (source)
-
•
The Colonel, though disclaiming all pretensions to connoisseurship, warmly admired the screens, as he would have done any thing painted by Miss Dashwood; and on the curiosity of the others being of course excited, they were handed round for general inspection.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)