How to Use aficionado in a Sentence

aficionado

noun

• The quality varies with the individual authors, but both history buffs and aficionados of literary criticism will find food for thought here.
  — Publishers Weekly, 8 Jan. 2001
• Brady, a passing mechanics aficionado, has been jotting things down for weeks.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2020
• And wine aficionados may not want to switch to domestic varieties, Isle added.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Many coffee aficionados—some might even call them snobs—prefer to use a French press rather than a drip coffee maker or brewer.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2019
• And of course, Nelson recorded a song with fellow cannabis aficionado, Snoop Dogg.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2019
• The vintage Merlot bar soap comes from a brand called Swag Brewery and is everything a wine aficionado needs.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 Dec. 2019
• Yet used copies continued to circulate among serious dessert aficionados — often selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
  — Susan Puckett, ajc, 15 Jan. 2020
• After all, the strategic showdown was invented at least a century before an early chess aficionado carved the Humayama rook.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
• The writers were aficionados of loss, the first blues artists.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
• All were chosen with the keen eye of a true aficionado.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2022
• At the Home Plate Hot Dog stand, the bacon mac dog is a must for hot dog aficionados.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
• That’s good news for french fry aficionados with smartphones, as long as the fries are fresh.
  — oregonlive, 10 July 2023
• The fitness aficionado who loves to snack throughout the day.
  — SELF, 21 Sep. 2021
• But as any any beauty aficionado will tell you, healthy skin makes for the best base.
  — Michella Oré, Glamour, 25 May 2021
• Thanks to a video shared online, both art and dog aficionados could watch as the dog got his first glimpse of the portrait.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 5 Feb. 2020
• The actress is a vintage car aficionado—and not just from afar.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2022
• That is not the case here: Jane is a comics aficionado going back to childhood, and he’s worked on The Lycan for a decade.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• Despite this, the mantra from EV aficionados doesn’t change.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• If your dad is an aficionado of classic LPs, this is the perfect gift.
  — Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022
• While not all at-home chefs (or ice cream aficionados) care about color, some do.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• While well-known to sports-media aficionados, Williamson may not be the top name bandied about by the average sports fan.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• Burgess, a wine aficionado, would order the best bottles on the menu—a Château Pétrus ’82, say—which greatly impressed the staff.
  — Molly Ringwald, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• This buzzy tool works to promote lymphatic drainage and de-bloat the face, meaning the skin care aficionado will be over the moon for this one.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2024
• On Lowe's The next time someone invites you over for a barbecue, tote this tool set along with you as a gift to the grill aficionado.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
• Catching every minute of the action is a tall order, even for the most diehard Olympics aficionado.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 July 2024
• The car aficionado and star of Jay Leno's Garage was working on a steam engine underneath a car in his garage when the blaze broke out.
  — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• But Meghan isn't the only aficionado of staple footwear.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• Though a fly aficionado, Mr. Balcombe doesn’t stint from examining the dark side of the species.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• The car aficionado and star of Jay Leno's Garage was working on a steam engine underneath a car in his garage around 12:30 p.m. when the blaze broke out.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• It’s been an auspicious year for animation aficionados.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025