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Sentence count:280+11Posted:2017-01-31Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: beginnerexpertprofessionalspecialistSimilar words: alma materhauteurdramaticdramatizea matter ofdefamatoryacclamationdramaticallyMeaning: ['æmətə]  n. 1. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime 2. does not play for pay. adj. 1. engaged in as a pastime 2. lacking professional skill or expertise. 
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151) Well, I didn't want to take it, because I was vaguely thinking of my amateur status.
152) And all that in one week, it must have been one of Madame's special amateur talent weeks I suppose.
153) He's a kind of amateur psychologist, and amateur is the operative word here.
154) She wrote like a privileged amateur,[http://sentencedict.com/amateur.html] a rich person entertaining herself.
155) There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business.
156) A new development called time-coding is in the process of revolutionising video editing at the advanced amateur level.
157) But at the level of field studies there was a much less rigid distinction between professional and amateur.
158) That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament.
159) International action is now needed to ban the use of gill-nets by amateur fishermen.
160) The operative word is amateur, and I do not mean it pejoratively.
161) Otherwise, schemes for producing well-trained professional and amateur musicians will meet with little success.
162) All novices must compete at the amateur level for three races before qualifying for the professional category.
163) Why, if a league player wants a game, does he not play amateur league?
164) When he had found her, on holiday in Bournemouth, she had been very keen on amateur theatricals.
165) Less expensive, but very good and popular among amateur ranks, is the range of secateurs produced by Wilkinson Sword.
166) He'd been a successful amateur boxer before he joined Plummer's organisation.
167) King gave away at least $ 15, 000 in tickets, according to one Valley official with amateur boxing.
168) Rudi had been, at various times, a coffeehouse poet and an amateur philosopher, but nothing really came of it.
169) That politico, Gorbachev, is an amateur, a provincial hick who thinks he's made it big.
170) Every year amateur rock musicians compete in the Battle of the Bands competition.
171) Pedestrianism remained a source of extra money for good runners, who were willing to sacrifice the more socially prestigious amateur laurels.
172) Amateur jockeys are something but too many rides means they deprive the professionals and that is something else.
173) My father played the clarinet in the orchestra; he was a good amateur musician.
174) Unfortunately the current rules permit this competitor to compete in the amateur class instead of the professional class.
175) The channel has lost its amateur status and become a grown-up, professional outfit.
176) The pro championship will be replaced by an amateur event in which stunt novices compete against each other on their own bikes.
177) Jonathan once appeared in a local amateur dramatics production of 'Death of a Salesman'.
178) As a professional sport, football has to meet different financial criteria from an amateur sport.
179) He was also an amateur musician who played the piano badly but with passion.
180) Recognizing Shakespeare, the volunteer launched into a typically amateur rendition: false voice, stilted phrasing, etc.
More similar words: alma materhauteurdramaticdramatizea matter ofdefamatoryacclamationdramaticallydeclamatorymelodramaticas a matter of factmatematerinmateclimateanimateteammateintimatematerialdecimateprimatesultimateestimateinanimateestimatedexanimatematernityultimatelyconsummatelegitimate
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