How to Use untrained in a Sentence

untrained

adjective

• There’s trained and untrained, and this one’s been trained the right way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• To the untrained eye, coyotes and wolves look a lot alike.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024
• The rest, to the untrained eye, is a strip of motels and gas stations.
  — David Amsden, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2023
• After a while, to my untrained eye, the gates of the palace all started to look the same.
  — Carrie McKean, The Week, 23 Mar. 2022
• To the untrained eye, Ms. Lifton’s kitchen looks as if it has been hit with a shrink ray.
  — Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• To untrained eyes, the Garcia Adobe isn’t much to look at.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• To an untrained eye, the trees might have looked normal.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
• The union chief said untrained pets had hurt some of her members.
  — Time, 22 Jan. 2020
• What appear to be just pebbles in the rocks are more than meets the untrained eye.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2021
• To the untrained eye, that might seem a very Alabama thing to do.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 17 Oct. 2021
• To the untrained eye, the object might have looked like an oddly shaped rock with a hole in it.
  — Sarah Durn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
• To an untrained eye, the girls appear to be larger than life and ready to hit the field on game day.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 19 July 2024
• And the difference, sometimes, to the untrained eye, is the splitting of a hair in the data.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 30 Nov. 2021
• To the untrained eye, the Light bus looks as eclectic as the hippie culture that birthed it.
  — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• To the untrained eye, the inside of the basking shark's mouth appears to contain a ribcage.
  — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
• To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
• To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be easy to miss.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• The base Note 11 feels clearly like a budget phone, while the Pro can pass for a flagship to the untrained eye.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• To the untrained eye, the floe appears vast and unchanging.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• And people in need of help should be wary of untrained strangers who may not always say the right thing.
  — Felice J. Freyer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• To the untrained eye, the role might give one a little Déjà Witherspoon.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
• About four months ago, Waffles was a wild, untrained horse.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• To the untrained eye, Nash Prairie looks like an unkempt pasture.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• To an untrained eye, the Real Estate desk at The Times covers homes.
  — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• The Bikes To the untrained eye, all dirt bikes will likely look very similar.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• To the untrained eye, the tags are enigmatic: ECW v 5. pH target 5.25.
  — Jacqueline Kehoe, Saveur, 20 Dec. 2023
• To the untrained eye, a heap of crushed shells and some purple pottery fragments might not look like much.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• To the untrained eye, the first design looks vaguely bug-like: two wings poke out from behind a square head.
  — Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
• Now, many of these untrained soldiers are dying on the other side of the country.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2022
• Even to the untrained eye the ball control, and eye-foot coordination, looked damn near perfect.
  — Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024