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Example sentences for "amateur"

Lexicographically close words:
amassed; amasses; amassing; amat; amata; amateurish; amateurs; amative; amativeness; amator
  1. An amateur performance had been given at the Theatre in aid of the Hospital.

  2. Mr. Cufaude and another gentleman amateur had appeared at the Theatre, in A new way to pay old Debts, and had been received with “rapturous applause.

  3. The Rifle Corps had given a series of amateur dramatic representations at the Drill Hall, in which Messrs.

  4. A single-wicket game of cricket had been played on the Denes between six members of the Amateur Club, the players being Messrs.

  5. A Rowing Match by Amateur Gigs, not exceeding 25 feet, given by Mr. Balls of the Victoria Hotel, which was won by the “Enigma.

  6. The following had taken part in an Amateur performance at the Regent Hall for the benefit of the Hospital:—Miss Lawes, Miss T.

  7. The real leg, remarks the camera, is the amateur leg; it is depressing, but terribly convincing.

  8. Nothing could be more absurd than the general view of him as a masterly professional on the one side and a trifling amateur on the other.

  9. On the contrary, an amateur with real innate talent may do, must do, more exquisite work than he could do if he were a professional.

  10. Is he a mere dilettante, an amateur collector of curious specimens, or is he something very different from a psychologist?

  11. The professional and amateur stage rights are strictly reserved by Mr. Stuart Walker.

  12. The professional and amateur stage rights on this play are strictly reserved by the author.

  13. The professional and amateur stage rights are reserved by the translator, Mr. Benjamin F.

  14. The agents for amateur rights in this play are Messrs.

  15. The professional and amateur stage rights on this play are strictly reserved by the author, to whose dramatic agent, Miss Galbraith Welch, 101 Park Avenue, New York, applications for permission to produce it should be made.

  16. The professional and amateur stage rights on this play are strictly reserved by Mr. Thomas Seltzer.

  17. The professional and amateur stage rights on this pantomime are strictly reserved by the author.

  18. My new book, The Amateur Emigrant, is about half drafted.

  19. With a constitution like mine, you never know--to-morrow I may be carrying topgallant sails again: but just at present I am scraping along with a jurymast and a kind of amateur rudder.

  20. TO-DAY, my dear Colvin, I send you the first part of the Amateur Emigrant, 71 pp.

  21. I have received the first sheets of the Amateur Emigrant; not yet the second bunch, as announced.

  22. My book is about half drafted: the Amateur Emigrant, that is.

  23. I have eighty-three pages written of a story called A Vendetta in the West, and about sixty pages of the first draft of the Amateur Emigrant.

  24. Duemitz was an amateur on the bassoon; Mozart composed three concertos for him, one in C and two in B flat major (191 K.

  25. How Bob Dexter turned himself into an amateur detective and found not only the mascot, but who had taken it, makes interesting and exciting reading.

  26. The college lads had formed an amateur fire brigade, and had frequent drills.

  27. There was a little amateur theatrical, followed by a dance and supper, and Frank Simpson was made to feel very much at home, for the girls took to him at once.

  28. He was still under the sway of these contradictory sentiments when the surgeon amateur of the flute came to see him.

  29. The amateur of the flute began by explaining that he was there only by a special favour of the colonel who had thought fit to relax the general isolation order for this one occasion.

  30. I'd been like an amateur actress wild with stage fright, who'd forgotten her part till the right cue came.

  31. But somehow the merest amateur would never have mistaken those boys for their British brothers.

  32. The candelabra was filled with tapers, and from the choir sounded most merry tunes sung by amateur choristers, with bellowing bass and shrill boys' voices among them.

  33. But there is one time when even the amateur may write a musical comedy--when he has a great idea.

  34. Von Reineck was likewise an amateur of pinks: the season of flowering had come, and suggestions were made as to whether these two could not visit each other.

  35. Von Reineck had already let go the flower, but at once took fire at the words, and said in his usual dry, serious manner, that it was quite consistent with an amateur to touch and examine them in such a manner.

  36. We have here in England the finest exponents of the game, both amateur and professional, in the world.

  37. Some time ago, a golfer who was capable of removing Mr. John Ball from the Amateur Championship Competition, lost his left thumb at the second joint.

  38. One is never too old to learn, and I think that in any future efforts I may make at amateur carpentry, I shall glue my nails!

  39. Travis, the Australian who perfected his golf in America and won the Amateur Championship of England.

  40. We see here that this distinguished amateur is an out and out adherent of the fallacy of the left.

  41. The amateur farmer had put on the side-saddle, not exactly bottom upwards, but turned square around; and he was trying to buckle the girths upon the stirrup-strap.

  42. If, on ordinary occasions, it was difficult for the amateur farmer to express his ideas, what shall we say of him in his present painful situation?

  43. An amateur of beauty hiding in a boudoir or a stolen glance at a mistress concealed from him by his friend might feel as Elie Magus felt at that moment.

  44. Here and there an amateur among the audience admired the new pieces of music which served as accompaniment to two or three great successes, but they attributed the improvement vaguely to "progress.

  45. Pons' idea had occurred to Magus twenty years later; but as a dealer-amateur the door of Pons' museum had been closed to him, as for Dusommerard.

  46. Clearly, Toddie was more of a general connoisseur than an amateur in packing.

  47. We accept no responsibility whatever with regard to this, or any amateur society.

  48. The brush is a very important item, and this is why amateur painters so often fail; they haven't a decent brush to work with.

  49. And 'Sibby' must be made a sharer of the good news in her lower region, though she was sure to disbelieve in Alda and Wilmet's amateur cookery.

  50. He is the only amateur I ever saw who knows how to make love!

  51. To tell truth, it would have been an ordeal to one less reluctant than Marjory; for a general air of uncertainty, like that of amateur theatricals when the prompter is best man, pervaded the party.

  52. Kennedy is one of the best amateur actors in Paris.

  53. These marks, it should be added, have been imitated, and the amateur will do well to consult expert advice before purchasing.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amateur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admirer; amateur; amateurish; apprentice; arbiter; authority; booster; buff; collector; connoisseur; critic; dabbler; devotee; dilettante; epicure; expert; fan; flirt; follower; freak; fribble; gourmet; green; homespun; idolater; immature; judge; newcomer; novice; nut; popular; pundit; savant; scholar; shallow; simple; sophomoric; specialist; superficial; technician; trifler; unprofessional; virtuoso; votary; worshiper