How to Use nonprofessional in a Sentence

nonprofessional

1 of 2 adjective
  • So far, the reviews of nonprofessional watchers are mixed but tend to be far kinder.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The nonprofessional cast members are as compelling as any pros.
    — Jim McKay, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Chou wanted to cast nonprofessional actors and spent his days scouting the city for talent.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • This is the best nonprofessional-grade model.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • So that’s a case of nonprofessional actors appearing in the shoot?
    — Ross Scarano, Billboard, 28 June 2022
  • In the first half of the year, Lowe’s was hurt by flagging demand from its nonprofessional customer base.
    — Will Feuer, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In an echo of her father, Ada was putting her inventive charms to nonprofessional uses as well.
    — Abigail Deutsch, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • One thing here that does echo his previous work, however, is the use of nonprofessional actors.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • About five years ago, Koltun and Lapshin added programs for young dancers who want to learn the art form on a nonprofessional track.
    — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • She’s played by Hélène Lambert, who like most of the cast members is a nonprofessional actor.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, nearly everyone in the film is a nonprofessional actor, bearing their own truths on camera.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Then what happened was that all the nonprofessional community theaters in the suburbs heard about it.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
  • For that reason, many independent brands display their styles on nonprofessional models of many sizes and shapes.
    — Linda Dyett, New York Times, 31 July 2019
  • The third type is nonprofessional sources such as citizens who are not in the public eye for professional reasons.
    — Florian Wintterlin, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The free show invites nonprofessional singers to perform a variety of pop songs, with no audition required.
    — Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2017
  • For this movie Pasolini used mainly nonprofessional actors, people with plain faces, in dusty clothes.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • UberPop allows people to hail nonprofessional drivers for a cheap ride.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There are as many ways of casting nonprofessional actors as there are of casting professionals, and as many ways to direct films with the one as with the other.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2021
  • But, whatever the reasons, the nonprofessional performances don’t so much disrupt the films as slot into them.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Kiarostami had made films mostly with nonprofessional actors, often about rural people of modest means.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Zhao’s film, populated by nonprofessional actors, was made for less than $5 million.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Zhao's film, populated by nonprofessional actors, was made for less than $5 million.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Boston is among few marathons where even nonprofessional runners have to meet strict qualifying times based on age and gender, and some runners spend years trying to qualify.
    — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Among them, the milestones included the first time a nonprofessional crew has operated as astronauts.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Sep. 2021
  • We are immersed in that world along with her and a largely nonprofessional cast of real nomads, in a film that straddles narrative and documentary genres.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Its cast is made up of a rotating assembly of professional and nonprofessional performers, dancers, and singers.
    — Ashley Ray-Harris, Chicago Reader, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Ramsay-Levi says as a lead-in to the work of Jonas Mekas, a filmmaker who often uses nonprofessional actors in his films.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Just as some nonprofessional traders got extremely wealthy off their risky GameStop positions, hedge funds that shorted popular names took huge hits.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Zhao’s first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a sturdy, windswept lyricism and abounding in nonprofessional actors.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Using nonprofessional actors means Israel's film doesn't feel polished — but that's OK.
    — Kimber Myers, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018

nonprofessional

2 of 2 noun
  • But these donors had opted to be part of the donation program and were passed along to nonprofessionals.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That stacks high odds against nonprofessionals like myself being able to pick stock market winners.
    — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Among those who do make their living as actors, there is some frustration about so many nonprofessionals having a say over their livelihoods.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This is especially common after storms when nonprofessionals see a chance to earn some quick money.
    — NOLA.com, 1 July 2017
  • They could no longer be sold in small quantities or in settings such as grocery stores where nonprofessionals could easily acquire them.
    — Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024
  • Most of the film’s actors are nonprofessionals, with one notable and valuable exception.
    — Chris Vognar, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2017
  • But thrusting nonprofessionals into the role of interviewer reveals how much of this is a skill that most people do not possess.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The nonprofessionals in the film certainly believe so.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • In order to understand the business plan, the document should avoid the use of jargon as much as possible so that nonprofessionals can read it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The men who play these characters, most of them also nonprofessionals, flaunt attitudes that appear as lived-in as their logo T-shirts.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • And the nonprofessionals were so natural.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • But there are two categories of nonprofessionals whose place in the history of the art strikes me as particularly exalted.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • These nonprofessionals have become key to the emotional realism that Guiela Nguyen seeks.
    — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Its cast of nonprofessionals (some of them refugees themselves) perform with little adornment or unnecessary emoting.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The cinema features a special category of nonprofessionals who are cast to play themselves.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But in all of these directors’ productions the presence of nonprofessionals is both a pursuit of progress in cinematic form and an emblem of that effort.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The actors are nonprofessionals playing versions of themselves.
    — Jonas Carpignano, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • One of those nonprofessionals, the tennis player Monica Seles, caught her eye.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Grounding the film meant looking for nonprofessionals for roles beyond the experienced actors portraying her leads.
    — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Useful Templates Templates ease the video creation process for nonprofessionals.
    — PCMAG, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Very similar to the nonprofessionals.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • The paradox of this quartet of movies up for the new casting Oscar, all boldly peopled with nonprofessionals, is that this very practice has become professionalized.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Since the global coronavirus quarantine began, there has been a lot of performing on social media by professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Still, Eastwood has used nonprofessionals before, albeit in supporting roles in Gran Torino.
    — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Jean-Luc Godard used nonprofessionals to rend the dramatic fabric and expose the artifices of performance.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The actors are nonprofessionals playing versions of themselves — members of a Native American family that has seen its share of hardship.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • They're played by a magnetic ensemble of nonprofessionals, recruited on McKay's home turf of Brooklyn.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2017
  • Much of this has already occurred in North Carolina, but policies and practices that explicitly frame teachers as nonprofessionals threaten to worsen these outcomes.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Each would-be Manson Family member made their introduction, giving their background or, for the nonprofessionals, something about themselves.
    — Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His predilection for casting abnormal nonprofessionals alongside professional actors gives real-life complexity to his tale.
    — Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025

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