How to Use amateur in a Sentence

amateur

noun

• All would be sharing the track with me, a total amateur.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Doyle is one of the state’s top high school golfers and competes in some of the nation’s top amateur tournaments.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 7 June 2021
• Hill competed as an amateur at a time when athletes weren’t paid, though many received payments under the table.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 June 2021
• Obviously, Gaga lives in this world and even had to put the brakes on her voice to make Lee's amateur singing realistic.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• High school junior Megha Ganne played in the final group but shot 77 and finished 3 over as the low amateur for the tournament.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 7 June 2021
• But the most amusing part of the sketch was Grande singing purposely off-key, demonstrating the atonality of an amateur with her flat notes and lackluster delivery.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Most of the primo talent gets snatched up in the amateur draft, framed around 18-year-olds.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• What other wonders might arise out of the soil of the eager amateur?
  — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• The Rangers found a first-round talent still sticking around in the 19th round Tuesday as the amateur draft wound down.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 July 2021
• 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
• The Mobleys, for a while, played on second-tier amateur teams.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Greene, the fifth overall pick in the 2019 amateur draft, throws lefthanded.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Kipp Fagg, who oversees the amateur draft, will now report to Boyd.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Osborne ended up being the local amateur with the best score, both on the day and for the tournament.
  — Scott Bell, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
• 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
• Understanding when to act — and when to wait — is a skill that separates the seasoned from the amateurs.
  — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 28 Sep. 2024
• The South African amateur made his first Masters birdie a few minutes later.
  — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
• 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
• These amateur and master gardeners have made Elmwood a place for people to visit and enjoy, reclaiming it as a greenspace and gathering place as it was originally intended.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024