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Example sentences for: amateurs

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Because millions of amateurs own cameras and take pictures, photography sometimes gets little respect from snobby museums.
Useless spoonerisms must be avoided and characterize their creators as rank novices or amateurs.
Next to the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn Museum looks like a bunch of amateurs.
With academia's standard rewards of promotion and tenure not as readily accruing in this work, the study of American place names is by and large in the hands of true lovers of the subject (amateurs in the etymological sense, and dilettantes).
The HDAS should serve not only as superb documentation of an aspect of the language too often left to amateurs among whom most professional lexicographers, including me, must be counted but also as an engaging colorful source of the pleasure to be derived from revelation and reminiscence.