How to Use untrained in a Sentence
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To the untrained eye, these mounds wouldn't have looked like much.
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Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2024
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There’s trained and untrained, and this one’s been trained the right way.
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Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2019
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Parker says this can get tricky for the untrained eye.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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The union chief said untrained pets had hurt some of her members.
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Time,
22 Jan. 2020
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There were a lot of untrained voices.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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To the untrained eye, the shop is full and ready for spooky season.
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Matthew Glowicki,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Oct. 2025
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To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
24 Aug. 2022
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About four months ago, Waffles was a wild, untrained horse.
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Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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The rest, to the untrained eye, is a strip of motels and gas stations.
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David Amsden,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Mar. 2023
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What appear to be just pebbles in the rocks are more than meets the untrained eye.
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Dennis Pillion | [email protected],
al,
9 Dec. 2021
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How many untrained teen-agers got asked to audition twice?
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Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Some of the high notes Grande hits are, to the untrained here, amazing.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
19 Nov. 2024
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To the untrained eye, the health of this block of brick bungalows might be hard to gauge.
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Matthew Heimer,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2017
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After a while, to my untrained eye, the gates of the palace all started to look the same.
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Carrie McKean,
The Week,
23 Mar. 2022
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There is no real excuse for having an untrained dog in the house.
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John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 Dec. 2020
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And people in need of help should be wary of untrained strangers who may not always say the right thing.
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Felice J. Freyer,
BostonGlobe.com,
14 June 2018
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To an untrained eye, the girls appear to be larger than life and ready to hit the field on game day.
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
19 July 2024
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To the untrained eye, that might seem a very Alabama thing to do.
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Kyle Whitmire,
al,
17 Oct. 2021
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To the untrained eye, all dirt bikes will likely look very similar.
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Matt Crisara,
Popular Mechanics,
21 June 2023
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Bears tend to look a lot alike to people, and untrained observers can have a very hard time telling them apart.
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Emily Wanderer,
The Conversation,
7 Jan. 2026
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Bears tend to look a lot alike to people, and untrained observers can have a very hard time telling them apart.
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Emily Wanderer,
Washington Post,
8 Jan. 2026
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The purple martin is, to the untrained eye, merely a bird.
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Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Aug. 2025
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Even to an untrained eye, the crack discovered this week would have looked alarming.
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Washington Post,
14 May 2021
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Instead, an army of untrained farmers does much of the digging.
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Stefen Chow,
Smithsonian,
19 Apr. 2018
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Bambi was followed by Bruno, the same breed, but even more untrained and wild.
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Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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Line-level staff members go untrained.
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Michael Wagner,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a chip off a regular gray rock.
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Kelling Donald,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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To the untrained eye, many appear to be just rocks of varied color and texture.
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Edward Rothstein,
WSJ,
1 Sep. 2021
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Now, many of these untrained soldiers are dying on the other side of the country.
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New York Times,
3 July 2022
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To an untrained eye sitting up in the stands, the scene looked much like a regular ballgame.
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Eliza MacKintosh,
CNN,
28 June 2019
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