Example sentences for: uninitiated

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

  • Being very new to this country and having, so far, only encountered school English, she found it difficult to believe that dialectal variation could be so great in such a tight little island as ours, and that so much of it could be unintelligible to the uninitiated.

  • For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.

  • And some explanation is required, because to the uninitiated, mergers mean less competition, not more.

  • "No justice, no peace," barks out a fierce equivalency, although to the uninitiated it may sound like a list of the two things the crowd is rejecting: justice and peace.

  • The uninitiated may find these examples too bizarre for words.


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