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Example sentences for: amateur

How can you use “amateur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And the Web is chattering with amateur antitrust sleuths.
But even an amateur lip reader could discern that one chanting activist was not using the word "racist" but another two-syllable word, which begins with an "f."
Unfortunately, Explaining Hitler seems to have gone to the printers too late to take account of a loony new book by the Australian amateur historian Kimberley Cornish, in which the blame for Hitler and the Holocaust falls squarely on Ludwig Wittgenstein, who went to school with Hitler for a year.
Over the years, the words dispensed to the young competitors seem to have become more and more obscure--to the point where the contest lies largely beyond the reach of amateur enthusiasts and is accessible only to a specialized class of orthographiliac autodidacts who have been training for years.
For patrons, artists, students and actors, Civic provides the best in professionally produced amateur productions in our community, and one of the best in the nation.