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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

No wonder he’s like a boot, hard on the outside, giving shape to a pulp of tenderfoot.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then it would be of more or less benefit to the tenderfeet to have a share in his rescue work; Elmer hailed the opportunity to increase their fund of woodcraft knowledge with eagerness.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Alan Douglas

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“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

And nine men out of ten were such green tenderfoots that winter of '58-'59, when five thousand prospectors overran the wild canyons and precipices of the Fraser.

From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

Expansive Kennedy looks askance at the tenderfoots who climb over his wheel.

From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

They-all ain't sech tenderfoots as to keep on comin' when we've stopped.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde