How to Use greenhorn in a Sentence

greenhorn

noun

• He's not the most sophisticated businessman you'll ever meet, but he's no greenhorn.
• Not bad for a greenhorn—we’ll just look past that QB depth chart for a year.
  — Eric Single, SI.com, 1 May 2017
• By the time Jacob turned 2, Tony had put a ball in his son’s hands and was watching his greenhorn grow.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Wisely The greenest greenhorn knows not to burn wet wood.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• As if that wasn’t bad enough, a sudden jerk of the boat at the wrong time injures their greenhorn, Taylor.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 1 May 2018
• In a state founded on a gamble for gold, get-rich-quick gurus have thrived on gullible greenhorns.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
• Nine different greenhorns have been on the field this season for an opening play of a game.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 14 Nov. 2019
• The question is whether the greenhorn governor has the political strength and courage to see it through.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• That system, of course, collapsed under the weight of thousands of greenhorn prospectors.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021
• As the super snow-moon storm peaks, he Cornelia Marie’s deck becomes a gantlet for Josh and Casey’s greenest greenhorn.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
• Not all Walmart employees are rolling out the welcome mat for Thompson and his fellow greenhorns.
  — Matthew Boyle, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2020
• No greenhorn, Marin has been active in Finnish politics since 2012 and is well respected.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• Hansen’s son-in-law is a greenhorn on the vessel who lets the older guys talk him into convincing their captain that his daughter is pregnant.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 8 May 2018
• Which makes third-place finisher Frank Mann, who’s been Losing for almost a decade now, a virtual greenhorn.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• Fabian developed the skill as a greenhorn on the Kantishna River in the '30s, learning from sourdoughs for whom a pole was an important tool.
  — Michael Carey, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
• Little papers were once part of the farm system for larger papers; greenhorns learned how to read a police blotter before stepping up to the next rung on the media ladder.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• Forbes’s swamped bureau reporters could offer only token help to a 23-year-old greenhorn on what many regarded as a fool’s errand.
  — Jonathan Greenberg, Town & Country, 15 Jan. 2019
• On the other end are the greenhorn quarterbacks coming out of college and having to adjust on the fly to the pro style schemes after operating in the spread going back to high school, or even Pop Warner.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
• However, after his captain determined there was no concussion and just an ugly cut, the greenhorn was eager to get back to work.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• And the situation leaves everyone – veterans and greenhorns alike – wondering what can be done to save the season.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
• Political greenhorns also turned up with the intention to contest the next election.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• As the greenhorn’s injury persists and his will to keep going continues, the co-captains make the tough call to sacrifice thousands of dollars in order to get him back to shore for medical treatment.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 1 May 2018
• The celebration was a bit delayed after his resident greenhorn crew member took an accidental line hook to the skull, resulting in a nasty gash on top of his head.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Still, circumstances and talent always permit some greenhorns to excel, and that will doubtless be the case again whenever football resumes.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020
• Many a greenhorn staffer was schooled by Dianne Young, a lyrical and literary writer who reviewed all of our stories and spearheaded many new sections and special issues.
  — Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2016
• Many a greenhorn staffer was schooled by Dianne Young, a lyrical and literary writer who reviewed all of our stories and spearheaded many new sections and special issues.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Curling greenhorns targeted them for curling questions because the couple wore curling-stone hats.
  — Chuck Culpepper, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2018
• Aymong’s partner, David Subotic, was a complete greenhorn, a banker in his early 30s who’d quit a comfortable Toronto job and moved to Vietnam after a visit had convinced him there were fortunes to be made.
  — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
• Rising is a greenhorn who has the advantage of having sat in the press box alongside Andy Ludwig during games in a redshirt year last season, sponging up everything there is to absorb shadowing the man who makes the Utes' offensive decisions.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• In addition to protecting greenhorns, a good helmet remains standard safety equipment for perilous rock jumps and many high-speed competitions.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1997

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