How to Use unschooled in a Sentence

unschooled

adjective

• These things look the same to my unschooled eye.
• Fatback, for the unschooled, is derived from the fat of pigs and is used a lot Southern cuisine.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2017
• The cat bites with vehemence and a yowl that communicates even to the unschooled.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
• The nominee viewed him as too young and too unschooled in foreign affairs to help him in the campaign or White House.
  — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• The whole project by a relatively unschooled and little-known young man was completed in about three months during the spring of 1829, leaving many questions in its wake.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• Like many of those who founded Hollywood, Goldwyn was an unschooled immigrant who went from mundane work to creating a world of glamour.
  — latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Johnny’s job is to take the clumsy, unschooled Baby and give her a whirlwind education in the basics of exhibition dancing.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Aug. 2017
• Nobody could be sure whether the cacophonous squawks emanating from Coleman’s white plastic alto sax were the sounds of groundbreaking genius or the flailings of an unschooled provocateur.
  — Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
• Starting at age 5, the unschooled Mr. García embarked on a journey that drew on native intelligence, natural gift and a willingness to take on backbreaking work to make something of himself — in his case, a chef.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2017
• Los Angeles officials have spoken openly about attempts to find unschooled students and help remove obstacles that are preventing them from coming to school.
  — Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• That’s a classic move in American culture: To see the unschooled and homespun as more authentic — and especially as more authentically American — than the sophistries of those decadent old Europeans.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• Pruett said Elevation Resources recently had a fracking job that was supposed to take seven days but lasted nine because unschooled roughnecks caused some equipment malfunctions.
  — Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Coleman himself supplements his buoyant alto playing with art brut-style contributions on trumpet and violin, and his unschooled embrace of those instruments caused additional pushback from listeners.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 6 Oct. 2017
• The causes included the talk of Russian hacking and the antic appointment to many of the most important Cabinet posts of dubious executives, men and women who are tragically unfit, from ideological extremists to unschooled plutocrats.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• Medical decisions are made by non-medical business administrators in hospitals and by unschooled clerks at insurance companies.
  — Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2017

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024