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Six example sentences with dilettante, each labelled with its topic.
He bought a kiln, threw four bowls, and abandoned pottery by August, a dilettante with an expensive shed.
Art
Every conservatory has a dilettante who buys three instruments a year and practices none of them past October.
Music
Investors learned to spot the dilettante founder, who pitches a new industry each quarter and finishes nothing he starts.
Startups
A dilettante reads one page of Kant, quotes it at dinner, and never opens the book again.
Philosophy
The camera club had one dilettante with the finest lenses and no photograph older than last month's trip.
Photography
A cooking dilettante buys the pasta machine, makes one batch of ravioli, and stores the thing on the top shelf.
Cooking
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