How to Use métier in a Sentence

métier

noun
  • His metier is bedroom pop that’s as influenced by indie confessionals as R&B valentines.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
  • Sports has been his main metier, including during a run at Turner Broadcasting in the 2000s.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Allende is solidly back in her metier with a multigenerational cast of characters, thrilling action in Chile and a sprinkling of magical realism.
    The Know, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • That store, which is also two stories and offers all 16 metiers, is inspired by the local Sonoran Desert and pays homage to the sunlight and succulents prevalent in the area.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Much like Catastrophe, Derry Girls combines irreverent farce with weightier issues that sometimes take you by surprise but never betray the series’ light-hearted metier.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025

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