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But one month later the Times accused “all Northern California” of conspiring against “Southland,” sending agents to “spy out the land and send the tenderfoot northward.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Aiden McCleskey, a tenderfoot Scout from Boy Scout Troop 61 in Northwest Washington, wanted to “gather resources” for Ukrainian civilians who get caught in the line of fire.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

He joins a long and eclectic tradition of tenderfoot film-makers making good on their cinematic dreams – some of whom started even younger.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

In 1883, 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, a New York City tenderfoot wearing a Brooks Brothers suit, came to what was then Dakota Territory to hunt bison.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015

“Your plan to show up Eugene Hammond as a tenderfoot at the butchering,” I said to refresh his memory.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Once in the woods, teachers fell back, leaving tenderfeet to find their way together.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

But there’s an advantage to being a freshman in a big class like this one — as tenderfeet, they’re not bound by deals and pacts made in previous sessions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011

And as long as a fresh herd of tenderfeet are ready to jump on the country-line bandwagon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Idaho, which has almost twice as much trout water as California and Oregon combined, and only about a tenth as many fishermen, has plenty of other streams where tenderfeet can do better.

From Time Magazine Archive

My partners were not only tenderfeet, but they were subject to periodic attacks of cold feet.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs

It could betray to our peers the awful truth that we are still greenhorns, tenderfoots, newbies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

That Joe Hurley oughtn’t to let you tenderfoots out of his sight.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes

“Huh!” she muttered, “some of these Eastern tenderfoots are some good in a pinch after all.”

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

You see, we were "tenderfoots," as far as having had any experience with burros was concerned, or we might have selected a more sprightly pair for our fellow-pilgrims.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

"What's the use of livin' in a world of tenderfoots if you don't use 'em?" growled Mrs. Nitschkan.

From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow