How to Use amateur in a Sentence

amateur

noun
  • The pros and amateurs will swing away, but the hay has been in the barn for a long time.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Who might be a fit coming from the amateur ranks?
    — Marisa Ingemi, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • Most amateurs can’t bring themselves to do it.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The par-4s tend to play more like par-5’s for amateurs.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Athletes are no longer amateurs, even in name.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The amateur videographer did not want to be named for fear of reprisals.
    — Reuters Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Who balk at the big bucks these former amateurs are making.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Joanne needs to be prepped and ready to go — this is no role for a stammering amateur.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Touchdown / Call the amateurs and cut ’em from the team.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Fifty years into a storied career, the call is the call of an amateur.
    — Joshua Dubler, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • What other wonders might arise out of the soil of the eager amateur?
    — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • There were private concerts, card games, and amateur plays.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The final five picks, though, were the true test of the Tigers’ amateur scouts' work for more than a year.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2020
  • An online source shows Clark has a 1-0 record as an amateur.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But plenty are amateurs; in the past, lots of dentists, oddly enough.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
  • The Mobleys, for a while, played on second-tier amateur teams.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the primo talent gets snatched up in the amateur draft, framed around 18-year-olds.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Pickleball is unique in how fluid the pathway is from amateur to pro.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Both golfers played in the Open for the first time as amateurs on sponsor exemptions.
    — John Davis, azcentral, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Open events for amateurs run all three days this weekend, allowing people of all skillsets to join.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • If amateurs played from this tee box, their chances of hitting the green would plummet to 2 percent.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time, the amateur draft was scheduled to take place in Atlanta during the break.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Bowman should aim high, and sign top-end amateurs to full NHL deals.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The last of the amateurs, as Prager tells me decades later, wanted to make the world a better place.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This is the dream gift for all sorts of chefs, bakers, professionals, and amateurs.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
  • This is the dream gift for all sorts of chefs, bakers, professionals, and amateurs.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Lai is also the first Asian amateur that the Bombers have signed in 12 years.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
  • For the first time since 2022, no amateur made the cut at the Masters.
    — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The problem is that most amateurs do not know their swing speed (the average is in the low 90mph range).
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • For amateurs who want to show off their own strength, there will be games and skill tests ranging from a 40-yard dash to field goal kicks.
    — Kynala Phillips, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024

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