How to Use newbie in a Sentence

newbie

noun
  • He is a newbie to local politics.
  • The old guard will say, ooh la la and the newbies will say, wow!
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 8 July 2019
  • Okoro, the fifth pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, is a newbie.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2020
  • For a newbie coder, this was an easy way to write things!
    Clive Thompson, WIRED, 29 July 2024
  • The newbie isn't the only one feeling the love from Adam.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 17 Feb. 2019
  • Three of the four teams are newbies for the first time in a half-century.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The one big newbie by default was Neon’s Crimes of the Future.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • The rare newbie to the Dune-iverse may be confused: is this a story of cumin bondage?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Morgan Nott, 26, manages a tea shop in Reno and is a newbie on the app.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Caveat: The Monday show isn't for newbies, Leete says; that's what open mics are for.
    Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Cross, the only newbie in the album or record of the year races, had his lane all to himself.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2020
  • As a starter bike, the CRF50F is designed to survive the abuses of dirt-bike newbies.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
  • At the meeting, the bosses tagged Archer, a newbie, to give it life in under 36 months.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2020
  • If the newbie pulls the hide-and-seek card, the family hunts them until death or dawn.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Ashley is the newbie to the group, and the foursome has been together since 2019.
    Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 16 May 2021
  • What are the biggest mistakes a newbie like me could make?
    Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Ski newbies can rent all the gear right there, so no need to drag your snowboard across the Hudson.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
  • If the newbie pulls the hide-and-seek card, the family hunts him or her until death or dawn.
    Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The event was packed, both with old pros like John Burton and under-30 newbies with backpacks.
    Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2019
  • Sorokin, 25, is hardly a knock-kneed newbie under the bright lights.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • Besides, Ertz is happy to be a resource for the newbies.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • As for us, the average time from the first contact with a newbie to them starting the job was about 30 days.
    Boris Abaev, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Rounding out the quartet of newbies is a beefed-up roast beef paired with a garlic aioli.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Some of us are newbies and some of us have years of experience.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The fourth troll is the newbie, Masha (Renata Friedman).
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As a newbie to the big, glitzy awards show, Gentry was simply happy to be there, but her favorite part of the night?
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 May 2021
  • That’s because, as a Division 1 newbie, all but one of the Warriors’ games have been played on the road so far.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Last year, it was named to the Nasdaq 100, a rare honor for a public-market newbie.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Nothing saves my serotonin levels like a brisk hot girl walk, plunge into frigid water, or honing my newbie ski skills on the slopes.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Photograph: Kwikset; Getty Images Kwikset is no newbie in the lock game.
    Nena Farrell, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024

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