How to Use unschooled in a Sentence

unschooled

adjective
  • These things look the same to my unschooled eye.
  • The cat bites with vehemence and a yowl that communicates even to the unschooled.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Fatback, for the unschooled, is derived from the fat of pigs and is used a lot Southern cuisine.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2017
  • The nominee viewed him as too young and too unschooled in foreign affairs to help him in the campaign or White House.
    — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • To an unschooled observer, the piano appears to be in good shape, its brown, hardwood body scuffed a bit here and there, and in need of a good sanding and refinishing.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Like many of those who founded Hollywood, Goldwyn was an unschooled immigrant who went from mundane work to creating a world of glamour.
    — latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Johnny’s job is to take the clumsy, unschooled Baby and give her a whirlwind education in the basics of exhibition dancing.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The whole project by a relatively unschooled and little-known young man was completed in about three months during the spring of 1829, leaving many questions in its wake.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Los Angeles officials have spoken openly about attempts to find unschooled students and help remove obstacles that are preventing them from coming to school.
    — Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Nobody could be sure whether the cacophonous squawks emanating from Coleman’s white plastic alto sax were the sounds of groundbreaking genius or the flailings of an unschooled provocateur.
    — Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • Pruett said Elevation Resources recently had a fracking job that was supposed to take seven days but lasted nine because unschooled roughnecks caused some equipment malfunctions.
    — Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Medical decisions are made by non-medical business administrators in hospitals and by unschooled clerks at insurance companies.
    — Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2017
  • Coleman himself supplements his buoyant alto playing with art brut-style contributions on trumpet and violin, and his unschooled embrace of those instruments caused additional pushback from listeners.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 6 Oct. 2017
  • By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.
    — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The causes included the talk of Russian hacking and the antic appointment to many of the most important Cabinet posts of dubious executives, men and women who are tragically unfit, from ideological extremists to unschooled plutocrats.
    — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017

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