How to Use trainee in a Sentence

trainee

noun
  • There were trainees at the guard posts around the perimeter of the base.
    TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Of those, only about half make it to the trainee phase.
    Christine Chitnis, ELLE, 24 May 2022
  • The trainees could perceive the world as their patients.
    Sergei Vardomatski, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The Steve Asmussen trainee is treated with Lasix for the first time.
    Rick Lee, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2021
  • That was deputy trainee, Joey Cruz, who showed the photos on his phone to the bartender.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • And as a first time Marathon trainee, those long run miles begin to add up.
    Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In spite of this being such a complex case, a trainee was assigned to the call.
    Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • What to know: Nest is the other Pletcher trainee with a big shot in the Distaff, joining Malathaat.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, Metro allowed the trainee to retake the test that same day.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The trainee, who was not identified, joined the Self-Defense Forces in April.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The suit stated that Cruz, then a deputy trainee, received copies of the photos from Mejia.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • According to Lott, the trainee was in his third week of training.
    Gregory Lemos, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • Kim Jennie was in the trainee program for nearly six years — the longest of the members.
    Erica Gerald Mason, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The report didn’t identify the race of the field trainer but suggests the trainee was white.
    oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Her first job was as a graduate trainee with Lloyds Bank.
    Alison Coleman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Teacher trainees complain they are owed two months of back pay.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Cuevas and another trainee threw Nerf balls at his face.
    Jack Ross, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Lott said the trainee let the children and the driver off the bus then continued to drive for a couple more miles.
    David Martin, CBS News, 7 May 2021
  • At the end of the conversation, a trainer at The Trevor Project reviews the transcript and gives feedback to the trainee.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
  • For more advanced trainees, the glute bridge will be a valuable warmup for those heavy training days.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Without the services, trainees can often fall off track or be forced to quit.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 3 June 2020
  • Sail with the Picton Castle as trainee crew on the adventure of a lifetime!
    Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Schwan joined Roche as a trainee in 1993 and has been at the company his entire career.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • Trainers typically spend weeks alone with trainees on the road, where the two often have to sleep in the same cab.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • On a plastic dummy, the trainees practice striking its stomach with the heel of their boots.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • He’s meant to spend the summer in New York as an executive trainee.
    Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The episode ends with Addison and a pregnant trainee being run over in the middle of the street, their fates in the air until next week.
    Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2023
  • On Monday, the pizzeria tweeted that the employee was a trainee on his third day.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • We were required to spend two years training with a public accounting firm and one year with a company as an industrial trainee.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • With many desks just starting to see revenue increase, trainees have little leverage to demand better conditions.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024

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