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Example sentences for: amateur

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Under the willow trees on its western shore, vendors set up an enormous outdoor market (known as the Lotus Flower Market, or Lianghua Shichang), which sells food and hosts amateur Chinese opera singers in the evenings.
In an editorial, it put the blame for the present impasse in the negotiations firmly on Arafat, who, it said, makes "Netanyahu's delaying skills seem almost amateur."
A piece celebrates amateur astronomy.
Most of the time these are smallish presentations, with dances performed by amateur groups; at their worst, they can be truly gaudy and almost laughable shows.
Diatoms, unicellular algae with ornate silica shells, have fascinated amateur and professional biologists ever since the invention of the microscope.