dabbler

Example Sentences

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David Byrne came from Baltimore by way of Scotland, a socially awkward dabbler in conceptualist experiments with photography and a veteran of various mediocre cover bands.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025

I consider myself a bit of a dabbler — always willing to learn about something or try something new, and then I dive deep into the rabbit hole with certain stuff.

From The Verge • Jan. 27, 2022

Laurie Anderson could be considered a modern Renaissance woman but she would humbly say that she's "just a dabbler and a tinkerer".

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

Until recently, he’d just been a dabbler who — like Kimbrough — found the game after moving to Seattle.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2019

She had known of the laboratory, but had associated the place with those entertaining experiments that an idle dabbler in chemistry might undertake.

From The Man Who Knew by Wallace, Edgar