How to Use apprentice in a Sentence

apprentice

1 of 2 noun

• There are four artists on the staff, as well as an apprentice.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• That’s the way you were treated as an apprentice.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• Girlie didn’t have any apprentices.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• Her uncle and aunt were looking for an apprentice and thought of her.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• The king seeks a new apprentice and Asha hopes to work alongside him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• His teen-age apprentice stood in my living room over a Tranströmer book.
  — Bianca Stone, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• More than a dozen of the apprentices will learn to work at Tiffany & Co.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
• The master and the apprentice, in sync until the very end.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• One of these apprentices was destined to take over the business.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Coach Cal show who's still the master and who's the apprentice?
  — The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
• The apprentices shopped for and wrapped hundreds of presents for the students.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
• Stadler prepares apprentices for a career, not a job.
  — Andy Tonsing, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• What about when that magician hired an apprentice?
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 May 2026
• Most often it as many as three licensed workers to one apprentice.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026
• 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 , 12 Oct. 2022
• Still, apprentices Justin, Jeff, and Meg, told us this beats their old jobs.
  — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
• The first-team players knew that the apprentices were skint, earning £29 a week.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• Montana is one of only three states to license an apprentice gas fitter.
  — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Kieran, his young apprentice, is learning fast.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• The tedium of the task was how the apprentice became the master.
  — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• The dark side is strong here, a current that sweeps around the apprentice, urging him, propelling him.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
• Johnson was an apprentice engineer who sang on the side and was a young father and husband.
  — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• Aon covers the apprentice’s salary, benefits, and the costs of tuition, fees and books.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Andrew bypassed college to work as a painter’s apprentice in Spain.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 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
• The difference is apprentices are getting paid to get their degree — not the other way around.
  — Claire Rafford, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026
• To begin with, apprentices don’t assemble full tea caddies at all.
  — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• Maul took Savage as an apprentice, but this was more than just a big brother taking care of his younger sibling.
  — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 19 May 2026
• The term acolyte, though, is typically used to refer to a Sith apprentice.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 24 Oct. 2022
• However, the complaint dealt not with the lemonade stand, but with the apprentice program.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 27 June 2023

apprentice

2 of 2 verb

• He apprenticed with a master carpenter for two years.
• We’re apprenticed, every one of us, to stone.
  — Linda Gregerson, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• As teens, boys apprenticed on farms or with artisans, and girls as dairy maids.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
• Master this section and move on to apprentice as a pastry chef.
  — Dallas News, 3 Dec. 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
• Roberts and Foulke will be able to apprentice on the set during the filmmaking process.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2018
• Driven to find work, David apprenticed to a merchant, but his debts mounted.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• One winner each year apprentices at a top restaurant, then receives coaching by the Roux brothers.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Onishi came from a family of ramen chefs, apprenticing for his father after high school.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• As a poor and orphaned 14-year-old, Jabez Gorham was apprenticed to a silversmith.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• Real mastery of a craft is handed down from master to apprentice over an extended period of time.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• The shop also has two artists apprenticing with Meyer and Pulos.
  — Adriana Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• Even as a boy Ferragamo was attracted by shoes and wanted to apprentice with the local cobbler.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Boys typically got a few years of grade school, began apprenticing in a trade by age seven, and were considered full-fledged members of the workforce around thirteen.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The 7-year-old Jesus becomes apprenticed to a dyer, who gives him very precise directions about dyeing three pieces of cloth in three different vats.
  — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
• 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
• When Shahn was fifteen, his parents pulled him from school and apprenticed him to a lithographer on the Lower East Side to help support the family.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
• Gollehon witnessed the process, was entranced, and as a teen enrolled in saddlery classes in Spokane, before apprenticing under Bleeker himself.
  — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026