How to Use amateur in a Sentence

amateur

noun
  • For the first time since 2022, no amateur made the cut at the Masters.
    — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But with the top pick in the second June amateur draft in 1966, the New York Mets swung and missed.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 10 June 2020
  • The final five picks, though, were the true test of the Tigers’ amateur scouts' work for more than a year.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2020
  • The Reds chose Greene with the second overall pick in the 2017 amateur draft.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • For the first time, the amateur draft was scheduled to take place in Atlanta during the break.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • JJ Bleday, the fourth pick in the 2019 amateur draft, homered, tripled and drove in two runs for the Marlins.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The amateur videographer did not want to be named for fear of reprisals.
    — Reuters Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021
  • He’s fought Davis twice in the amateurs and lost decisions in both fights.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • What other wonders might arise out of the soil of the eager amateur?
    — Caty Enders, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Since that time, the Condors haven’t been overwhelmed with help from the big club in the way of amateurs signing pro deals.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But when the Open Era started in 1968, pros were allowed to play with amateurs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • For those new to the game jam space, be prepared for an amateur, do-it-yourself feel.
    — Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Fifty years into a storied career, the call is the call of an amateur.
    — Joshua Dubler, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Bowman should aim high, and sign top-end amateurs to full NHL deals.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • All would be sharing the track with me, a total amateur.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • But amateurs are more than welcome to enjoy the ice as well.
    — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Now, North Texas will be the center of the amateur scouting universe for two weeks this spring.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Both golfers played in the Open for the first time as amateurs on sponsor exemptions.
    — John Davis, azcentral, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Not as a four-time All-American, Pac-12 player of the year and former No. 1 amateur in the world.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Christensen, the low amateur in the recent Utah Open, moved up with a 67 that included birdies on the last three holes.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This year's tournament was Brehm's first Tour event in his home state since the 2005 Buick Open as an amateur.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2020
  • Pros and amateurs alike reach for them—Eliud Kipchoge even used Maurten to fuel his historic sub-two-hour marathon.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 26 June 2025
  • Yet despite his age, the developers don’t want their Bond to feel juvenile or amateur.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025

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