novice

In a sentence

Six example sentences with novice, each labelled with its topic.

• As a novice she bought her first shares the week before a crash and held on only because a friend insisted.

  Finance

• The knife-skills class is meant for the novice, so the chef spends the first hour on how to hold an onion.

  Cooking

• Every novice on the team learns to dribble with the weak hand before touching a ball in a real scrimmage.

  Basketball

• A novice tends to leave the camera on automatic, and the first lesson is simply learning what the dial does.

  Photography

• The tutorial treats every player as a novice, walking through the jump button before it lets you near an enemy.

  Gaming

• Every novice in the class starts on an open string for a week before the teacher lets a finger touch the fretboard.

  Music

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