How to Use amateur in a Sentence

amateur

noun

• The Mobleys, for a while, played on second-tier amateur teams.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Although almost all of the drivers are amateurs, they are credentialed.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
• And while Baker often hires non-actors for his films, Madison is no amateur.
  — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
• Women's boxing has grown rapidly over the past decade, both at the amateur and professional levels.
  — Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• Studies in amateur and elite athletes show a higher prevalence of 50% to 80%.
  — Nicholas B. Tiller, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2021
• Over the decades, amateurs have beaten pros, nobodies have beaten somebodies.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Details on the Wild's draft picks, with comments by director of amateur scouting Judd Brackett.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• That’s when Davis will fight Cuba’s Andy Cruz, a two-time amateur world champion, in the lightweight finals.
  — Olivia Reiner, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
• Stowers posits that many amateur players like himself get some of their major struggles out of the way early in their time on campus and learn how to cope with that before taking off later in their college careers.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 23 July 2021
• Lee is the first amateur the Red Sox have signed from the country since righthander Byung Yoo in 2002.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• In 1951, he was named the country's top amateur athlete by the AAU.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Most of the primo talent gets snatched up in the amateur draft, framed around 18-year-olds.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• What other wonders might arise out of the soil of the eager amateur?
  — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• For amateurs who want to show off their own strength, there will be games and skill tests ranging from a 40-yard dash to field goal kicks.
  — Kynala Phillips, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Greene, the fifth overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, throws lefthanded.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Kipp Fagg, who oversees the amateur draft, will now report to Boyd.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Sargent finished nine shots ahead of the No. 2 amateur, Ben Carr.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 19 June 2023
• As such, the Mets will receive a compensation pick after the fourth round of the 2023 amateur draft.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• His 65 in the second round of that year's Open tied for the lowest-ever score by an amateur in golf's oldest event.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2023
• While Orenstein’s garment is the work of an amateur, this book is anything but.
  — Kimberly Schaye, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Executives spent the first three weeks of the month occupied by the amateur draft.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• There was a good amateur circuit where the top East Coast surfers came into Newport.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Four of the first five selections in the July amateur draft were Black for the first time in baseball history.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
• Lamprecht is also the first amateur to shoot a round in the 60s in an Open at Royal Liverpool.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• In the span of a couple of weeks in the late summer of 2009, the Red Sox signed three shortstops as international amateur free agents.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
• Understanding when to act — and when to wait — is a skill that separates the seasoned from the amateurs.
  — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 28 Sep. 2024
• The South African amateur made his first Masters birdie a few minutes later.
  — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
• At this time last year, Shelton hadn’t yet turned pro and was ranked No. 569 in the world, collecting rating points as an amateur.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
• Selected third overall by the White Sox in the 2014 amateur draft, Rodón struggled to stay on the field in his early big-league seasons.
  — Ronald Blum, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• How is an earnest amateur golfer like a blind asphalt layer?
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024