How to Use apprentice in a Sentence

apprentice

1 of 2 noun

• More than a dozen of the apprentices will learn to work at Tiffany & Co.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
• Coach Cal show who's still the master and who's the apprentice?
  — The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
• There are four artists on the staff, as well as an apprentice.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• The king seeks a new apprentice and Asha hopes to work alongside him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• One of these apprentices was destined to take over the business.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• His teen-age apprentice stood in my living room over a Tranströmer book.
  — Bianca Stone, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Cooking for the Maiko House, a drama about a home for apprentice geisha that’s as cozy as a warm bowl of homemade soup.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
• Her uncle and aunt were looking for an apprentice and thought of her.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Aon covers the apprentice’s salary, benefits, and the costs of tuition, fees and books.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• The film tells a tale of a demon slayer who comes to the rescue of a young girl trapped in the underworld — and who then takes the kid on as an apprentice.
  — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• Half-hearted stints, in the next few years, as a legal apprentice and an army ensign proved just as abortive.
  — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• After high school, John Boll worked briefly as a plumber’s apprentice and then found jobs in auto plants.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Then one apprentice guide was in a one-person safety kayak.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Free Press' apprentice program has helped launch the career of many journalists.
  — Jewel Gopwani and Anjanette Delgado, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2023
• However, the complaint dealt not with the lemonade stand, but with the apprentice program.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 27 June 2023
• The term acolyte, though, is typically used to refer to a Sith apprentice.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 24 Oct. 2022
• Johnson was an apprentice engineer who sang on the side and was a young father and husband.
  — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• He was expelled from school at 14 for failing to follow the rules and tried to land apprentice-level civil servant jobs, but couldn’t pass the tests.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• Both very bad outcomes for an Egyptian apprentice like me.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
• With the new workers added to the mix, Bass said apprentice Davion Hodges, 22, took over the court about three weeks ago, showing off his skills and personality.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2022
• But despite his prominence, Jumaev has not yet been able to find an apprentice who wants to learn how to, say, match colors in a kundal.
  — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Andrew bypassed college to work as a painter’s apprentice in Spain.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• Kate shook hands and chatted with Action on Addiction clients who were working as apprentices in the kitchen.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• In order to succeed, Maren must serve as the apprentice to the emperor's dragon trainer.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
• Bachelor – a young knight or a young student, so a bachelor of arts or even a kind of young apprentice showing kind of men making their way in the world.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• This was at odds with the oversubscribed culinary courses, or indeed any of the other trade and apprentice subjects.
  — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
• Shortly after arriving around midday, the Princess of Wales toured the mill and met some of the company's apprentices and mentors.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• The author, who served as Wright's apprentice during the 1950s, also offers a unique insight and analysis of Wright’s work.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
• The apprentices gain on-the-job training, a stronger portfolio and a new professional network.
  — Hilary Smith, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• Would Peters, one of the smartest players on the team, be comfortable signing a short-term deal and taking on a gifted rookie as his apprentice?
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2023

Advertisement

apprentice

2 of 2 verb

• He apprenticed with a master carpenter for two years.
• Roberts and Foulke will be able to apprentice on the set during the filmmaking process.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2018
• The artist invited Totah, by then 22 years old, to apprentice with him for a few weeks.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• From the line to apprentice Thompson and Tran exemplify why GM has the program in place.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2020
• Master this section and move on to apprentice as a pastry chef.
  — Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• As a poor and orphaned 14-year-old, Jabez Gorham was apprenticed to a silversmith.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• Hiester apprenticed as a tool and die maker, loved the work, and did it until the company went bankrupt in 2000.
  — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• Driven to find work, David apprenticed to a merchant, but his debts mounted.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The firm's founder, John Lobb, had been apprenticed to a shoe-maker in Plymouth as a young man before walking to London in 1851 to further his skills.
  — Shane C. Kurup, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• So, when do people born on the 29th (and not apprenticed to pirates) celebrate their birthday in those three off-years?
  — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2020
• Johnny is twenty-one, done with art school and apprenticed to an art framer and restorer.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2011
• The shop also has two artists apprenticing with Meyer and Pulos.
  — Adriana Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• One winner each year apprentices at a top restaurant, then receives coaching by the Roux brothers.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• As a teenager, Bathsheba Demuth lived for a time with a Gwich’in family, apprenticed to a dog musher.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
• The company eventually found a more stylish niche thanks to François Goyard, who’d apprenticed for eight years before taking the helm (and changing the name) in 1853.
  — David Nash, Town & Country, 20 June 2017
• Even as a boy Ferragamo was attracted by shoes and wanted to apprentice with the local cobbler.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
• Rich could have turned out like many of his childhood friends, apprenticing at a factory after middle school.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• After apprenticing with other top names, Givenchy founded his own house in 1952.
  — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Unlike apprenticed or employed Affinites who had honed their abilities for years, Ana had only a basic and crude control over hers.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• After dropping out of school at 13 to help support his family, he was apprenticed to a clothes dyer, a precursor to the modern dry cleaner.
  — Pamela Druckerman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
• Cookie—a talented chef who, in his youth, had been indentured and apprenticed to a Boston baker—is a dreamer in other ways, too.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• Real mastery of a craft is handed down from master to apprentice over an extended period of time.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Each worker in any position has the opportunity to, say, apprentice on the farms, learn about beekeeping and be a part of some potential future growth.
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2020
• This charming novel follows a young man who's plucked from obscurity to work for a sultan, apprenticing for a great master and helping to make great toys to delight the finicky royal.
  — The Editors, townandcountrymag.com, 1 June 2023
• To master frame removal, Breitwieser became an expert at putting frames on by apprenticing in a high-quality frame shop.
  — Michael Finkel, Time, 14 June 2023
• A few years after leaving Parsons, in an effort to further understand his vocation’s roots, Kaiser moved to Japan to apprentice with two master potters for a year each.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Onishi came from a family of ramen chefs, apprenticing for his father after high school.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• He was apprenticed to a cotton mill owner and eventually became a supervisor at the mill.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2017
• After apprenticing in a string of positions and teaching for a short time in Alabama, Handy started a band and followed his musical passions to St. Louis.
  — al, 4 Feb. 2020
• After his legal troubles in Olympia began, André started apprenticing with a local sign painter named Ira Coyne, who showed up to the brothers’ trial in support.
  — Siloh Radovsky, Teen Vogue, 25 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024