This page shows Amateur in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like recreational or athlete. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Amateur in a sentence
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Amateur meaning
- A lover of something.
- A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.
- Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
Synonyms of Amateur
Example sentences (20)
It is the latest in a series of grassroots and amateur clubs helping to share mental health and wellbeing messages.
At last year’s Women’s Open at Muirfield, the American took home the Smyth Salver for the low amateur performance.
Gordon Sargent, who shot a final-round 1-under-par 69 to finish at 4-over, was the low amateur for the tournament.
Entries to the 15th edition of the award are currently open for photographers young and old, experienced and amateur.
C Grade: Ocean Grove 24 def by Geelong Amateur 37. Best: Heidi Bennett, Emily Quinten, Matilda Kelly (12 goals).
He is cautious, boring and, for the moment, obsessively distracted by a snippet of what looks like amateur pornography.
Blackpool Wren Rovers face WLL leaders Burscough Richmond in a Lancashire Amateur Shield semi-final at Chorley tonight (7.30).
If yours aren’t signed, they may have been decorated by an amateur, making your set truly one of a kind.
As one of 10 amateur invitees - five male and five female - Pickin won't vie for the $250,000 on offer.
As a serious amateur chef as well as an artist, I have delighted in this presentation of food as art.
He had to slow down — and was caught by the amateur clowns, who were gleefully surprised at actually capturing a victim for once.
He was in my corner for my last ever amateur fight, when I lost against Zack Parker eight years ago.
He played for a local Amateur Athletic Union team, Brookwood Elite, before seeking a new challenge.
His record as an amateur was also very impressive as he notched 121 wins against just 13 reverses.
He was snapped by amateur photographer Jeff Hubbard who had experienced homelessness in the past.
From 2012 to 2015, we assisted Major Kafoa in the running of professional and amateur boxing in the country, along with Marika Yalimaiwai.
Accardi, who calls herself an “amateur artist,” is seeking paintings, sculptures and artwork for the 100 anniversary of Catholic Charities.
In 1954, Olympic gold medal runner Malvin G. Whitfield became the first Black recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award for amateur athletes.
A CBC analysis of sexual offence convictions of coaches in amateur sport found only nine cases from 1998 to 2018 where it was a female coach.
But he still pulled out a first place win in the Amateur Lites and finished third in the 2-Stroke Amateur.
Common combinations with amateur
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an amateur 31×
- and amateur 19×
- amateur radio 18×
- the amateur 18×
- amateur boxing 11×
- amateur and 9×
- of amateur 8×
- to amateur 6×
- amateur golf 6×
- world amateur 5×
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