Sentence examples for Novice from inspiring English sources

"Novice" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is just starting to learn or do something, or just beginning a particular activity or skill. Example: She was a novice at cooking, but now she can make amazing dishes.

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Novice

noun

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.

  • I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers wouldn't make.

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Even though he was a political novice, McGrady was appointed to a ministerial post as head of planning and co-ordination.

Although a novice, Ratzenberger was extremely popular with all who knew him, particularly among the drivers who had progressed through the ranks with the Austrian when he lived a hand-to-mouth existence while racing in Britain.

Under the Norwegian novice, Cardiff have taken only eight points from his first 13 matches and – six points adrift of a safe position with five games left – they are set for an early return whence they came, after their promotion as champions last season.

He is still a novice on grass but yesterday he won his first competitive match on the surface, beating Marc Rosset 6-7, 7-5, 6-4.

George Reid may be a novice when it comes to production but he has achieved just the right sound, with just the right mix of the commercial and the cut-up, his style acquired, presumably, from hours analysing everything from Aaliyah's work with Timbaland to Hudson Mohawke and Chris Clark's recordings for Warp.

However, any vague hope the 32-year-old novice had of producing an antidote to spawn an unlikely survival mission was tempered by Fulham, who took a big leap to securing their Championship status with a draw on a frenetic night at Craven Cottage.

Both feature novice (2/10/1km) and sprint (5/20/2.5km) distances, while Stockton also has a full-length race.

So you're never out of sight of dry land and they are not tidal, which makes them very attractive for novice sailors.

Griffin purists and experts (believe me they are legion, as I, a novice, discovered after writing a book about Canberra) still regard the initial decision to place the George V monument on the land axis as some sort of heresy.

"We made the novice mistake of issuing the press release about our research during the 2011 riots", the researchers later wrote.

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