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Example sentences for "amateurs"

Lexicographically close words:
amassing; amat; amata; amateur; amateurish; amative; amativeness; amator; amatorious; amatory
  1. Well, there're amateurs who just read the ads in the weekend papers, or just pick a neighbourhood and wander around, but that's no way to go about it.

  2. Just good form and common sense, really, but you'd be surprised how many amateurs just fail to make the jump to pro because they can't grasp it.

  3. The supes and amateurs were in the ring in an instant and back again when the bull had passed.

  4. There also are usually a few privileged amateurs who seek that vantage ground much as the dilettanti seek the side scenes of the theatre.

  5. The amateurs as usual were tempted to applaud.

  6. The ring which a moment before had been peopled with amateurs was emptied in a trice.

  7. A number of those amateurs actually paid for admission to the concert, on purpose to hiss the independent artist.

  8. The book will be found by amateurs both interesting and instructive.

  9. You are quite successful and all the artists and amateurs are indebted to you for so exact and correct a 'Texte' on the subject.

  10. All seemed going well until Paganini arrived on the scene, when the amateurs stipulated for a certain number of free admissions for their friends and families, as a recognition for their assistance.

  11. The demand thus raised brought forth those gems of the violin maker's art now in the possession of wealthy amateurs and a few professors.

  12. As a writer said at the time: "The amateurs of Boulogne have earned for themselves a niche in the history of the art--they have hissed Paganini.

  13. Breeders and amateurs generally have more interest in the results than in the way in which they have been brought about.

  14. Horticulturists and amateurs generally know that seed can be obtained from single stocks only, and that the double flowers never produce any.

  15. But Skiphauser ain't much more'n blocked out a head and shoulders 'fore it was a cinch he was a ringer, with nothin' but a lot of rank amateurs against him.

  16. Amateurs are afraid to let themselves loose, but not that bunch.

  17. Maybe you've seen amateurs that was funny, but you never see anything to beat that combination.

  18. It might be thought, under these circumstances, that he would be but the most passing of amateurs in either of these subjects, and have a very superficial knowledge of them.

  19. The lawyers alone were offended at the visits of the court to the amateurs at Cambridge, especially when James went thither to see the comedy of Ignoramus, in which law and lawyers are treated with small measure of respect.

  20. I likewise produced Cherubini's tragic opera, Medea; a work considered by musical amateurs one of the finest dramatic compositions ever written.

  21. A party of amateurs would buy a ticket between them, each one taking 20 minutes of the ticket and returning with the pass-out check to the next.

  22. The opinions expressed by several distinguished amateurs as to the merits of Gounod's admirable work were rather amusing.

  23. He loved music passionately, especially Italian music, and like all great amateurs was hard to please.

  24. Already we see what may be done among them; good-hearted amateurs are willing to work hard, and the one hospital cruiser--One!

  25. To amateurs of the present day its melodies appear of old-fashioned, or at least of antique cast.

  26. As a general rule, we would not advise amateurs to trouble with seeds, although there is pleasure in watching the birth and development of a new and beautiful variety.

  27. He had taken to the stage at first in reliance on the extravagant eulogies of friends, forgetting that the standard for amateurs in any form of art is not a high one, and he was very soon brought to his proper level.

  28. Mr. Featherstone, who was getting slightly tired of the enthusiastic young amateurs at his end of the table, here suggested an adjournment to the music-room.

  29. Amateurs added a museum of natural history to their collection of paintings.

  30. Sowing lawn-grass seed evenly is an undertaking that most amateurs fail in.

  31. The Varsity Coach A three-act play of college life, by Marion Short, specially adapted to performance by amateurs or high school students.

  32. It was collected principally in order to illustrate to amateurs and experts the progress of plastic art, which is always reflected in the medals.

  33. It is true that all parts of this exceedingly valuable collection were not treated with equal care; the whole of it deserved a catalogue for the delectation and the use of later amateurs and collectors.

  34. Undoubtedly," said the Architect; "and then curiosity-collectors and amateurs would be better contented to show their valuable treasures to the world.

  35. We have in this said nothing of oil colours; amateurs will hardly need them in a wild country; but when we treat more at length on this subject our own equipment will be given.

  36. Woodpigeon, plover, and weasel calls can be purchased for a small sum from any respectable gunmaker, and are far better than most amateurs could hope to make.

  37. The one-act play in our country to-day is an ally of the amateurs and the innovators.

  38. When the Washington Square Players, for the most part amateurs of the theatre, began their experiment in the spring of 1915, they began with a bill of one-act plays.

  39. Some of them are decently entombed in the catacombs of Lacy's British Drama, or still available for amateurs in French's library.

  40. In 1853, in a small back shop in Varick Street, with infinite pains, they made their first piano, and a number of teachers and amateurs were invited to listen to it.

  41. He gave musical parties at his quarters, playing the cello himself, and gathered about him many of the most distinguished artists and amateurs of the day.

  42. A select company of professional musicians and amateurs had banded themselves into an organization for the purpose of performing and studying the best class of chamber-music with special reference to Beethoven's compositions.

  43. Finally, if none of these conditions are complied with, the same efforts will, in the hands of philosophical amateurs and oratorical charlatans, undoubtedly only produce mischievous compounds and destructive explosions.

  44. Used by all Professionals and Amateurs in preference to any others.

  45. Photographic Dry Plates and Outfits for Amateurs and Professionals.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amateurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.