greenhorn

Example Sentences

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She spoke of that hard line in sports, the one between being a 21-year-old greenhorn flitting around all carefree without the expectations and a 26-year-old veteran flying around with the expectations.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

Wily bank robber Wesley Snipes taunts a familiar-looking rough-and-ready cop while greenhorn Ryan Phillippe delivers a TED talk on chaos theory in this listless would-be thriller.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2019

Instead, it was McIlroy that looked like the greenhorn.

From Golf Digest • May 5, 2019

I’d recommend it for the Chabon greenhorn on up.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Fresh arrivals to the Valentine farm made it so Cora was no longer the greenhorn, bumbling about.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead