How to Use amateur in a Sentence

amateur

noun

• Lee is the first amateur the Red Sox have signed from the country since righthander Byung Yoo in 2002.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• In 1951, he was named the country's top amateur athlete by the AAU.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
• What other wonders might arise out of the soil of the eager amateur?
  — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• For amateurs who want to show off their own strength, there will be games and skill tests ranging from a 40-yard dash to field goal kicks.
  — Kynala Phillips, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Greene, the fifth overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, throws lefthanded.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Sargent finished nine shots ahead of the No. 2 amateur, Ben Carr.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 19 June 2023
• As such, the Mets will receive a compensation pick after the fourth round of the 2023 amateur draft.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• His 65 in the second round of that year's Open tied for the lowest-ever score by an amateur in golf's oldest event.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2023
• While Orenstein’s garment is the work of an amateur, this book is anything but.
  — Kimberly Schaye, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Executives spent the first three weeks of the month occupied by the amateur draft.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• There was a good amateur circuit where the top East Coast surfers came into Newport.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Four of the first five selections in the July amateur draft were Black for the first time in baseball history.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
• Lamprecht is also the first amateur to shoot a round in the 60s in an Open at Royal Liverpool.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• In the span of a couple of weeks in the late summer of 2009, the Red Sox signed three shortstops as international amateur free agents.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
• At this time last year, Shelton hadn’t yet turned pro and was ranked No. 569 in the world, collecting rating points as an amateur.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
• Selected third overall by the White Sox in the 2014 amateur draft, Rodón struggled to stay on the field in his early big-league seasons.
  — Ronald Blum, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• Seixas played before the Open Era, which started in 1968 and allowed former amateur players to cash in big.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2022
• Nakajima, a former No. 1 amateur, is playing Bahrain and Qatar the next two weeks.
  — Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• No amateur has ever won the tournament, first played in 1934.
  — Alan Blinder Doug Mills, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Castle battled the world’s best amateurs once with a rib injury, so why not do it again at one of the game’s most demanding courses?
  — Adam Woodard, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2023
• But uh, this one is not just for professionals, unlike tennis and the land, so amateurs can play.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith return to the baking tent with a new group of amateur bakers this fall.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
• These are far from nannies to help keep the amateurs on track, though: Even professional drivers use them to help make the most of the available grip levels.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Taillon starts the series opener at Pittsburgh, the team that selected him with the second overall pick in the 2010 amateur draft.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022
• All night in the stands, Kansas City played the unfortunate pleasure of the flailing amateur next to a brilliant boxer’s jab.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Scientists and amateurs alike descended on river-bottom forests across the South, hoping for a glimpse of the bird.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• After eating up the amateurs with a 138-8 record, the Haneys decided to take another leap.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• So the amateurs might, with the help of AIs, either ask new questions that are good or help with good explorations of existing questions, that sort of thing?
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• Solving a killing that went cold a half-century ago is a daunting prospect for anyone, let alone amateurs.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• For a lot of amateur or busy family chefs, chicken is an easy go-to dinner option.
  — Josie Goodrich, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024