How to Use novice in a Sentence

novice

noun

• He's a novice in cooking.
• The first is about a nun, or, to be exact, a novice nun.
  — The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• This is a must-have kitchen tool for novice and pro cooks alike.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 Aug. 2022
• Dim lighting is the silent scream of a video novice at work.
  — Stacey Hanke, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The rest of us were novice paddlers, but his strong J-strokes kept the raft on track.
  — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
• That puts it right in the sweet spot for most lifters, whether novice or expert.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 17 Nov. 2022
• This is one of the first variations novice lifters learn.
  — David Otey, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
• The class is open to both novice coffee drinkers and avid coffee lovers.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• On set, the A-lister taught the novice director about the unsaid.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• For the novice home chef, there are some silly hiccups along the way.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
• While new to the racing scene, Bedard was hardly a novice to the sport.
  — Stephanie Hoppe, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2019
• The tempo can make the dances harder to follow for a novice.
  — Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• According to the news release, the Coach reroute will triple the length of the novice Coach’s Corner run.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2024
• This Instant Pot is great for novice cooks and skilled pros alike.
  — Madison Trapkin, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• More than once, over the past few years, novices have held their own with top boxers.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Plus, out-of-square corners and bulging, wavy walls can be a nightmare for a novice.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• The adviser will know the questions to ask and the traps to avoid far better than any novice could.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• And just like that, I am saved thanks to a 28-year-old pop star, actor, and cooking novice.
  — Danielle Campoamor, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2021
• Veterans and novices alike flocked to it, stoked by the prospect and weirdness of surfing in the city.
  — David Kelly, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
• This scrawny, 135-pound novice wanted to try a brutish contact sport?
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• At the time, Sondheim, a prodigy in his mid-20s, was still a Broadway novice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• The guides at Fishtales love taking novices out on the river.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2018
• An at-home gel nail kit might be your ticket from novice to nail pro.
  — Kate Watson, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• The stretch of river through Glen Canyon is ideal for a novice kayaker.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 5 Sep. 2019
• The cake, which is similar to the classic pound, is easy for a novice baker to whip up.
  — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
• Here, swimming novices from the ages of three to 90 attend weekly group lessons.
  — Léontine Gallois, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2024
• With the high price and larger size, this is not the optimal choice for a bread-making novice.
  — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2023
• This crochet project is ideal for a novice, as it can be made in a couple of hours.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
• Even the most novice investor can see that a U.K. share doing the same thing at the same scale as a U.S. stock is valued at less than half per unit of enterprise.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
• When the system was ready, Kim’s team put it through a training phase that looked a bit like mentoring a novice human doctor.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2025