Sentence examples for could be professional from inspiring English sources

Embroiderers, or broderers (as their guild was then called), could be professional or amateur; they all tended to work from existing images or professionally designed patterns, called blackwork, a few examples of which are included here.

"Three months ago, my coach told me he believed I could be professional.

"I was never thinking that I could be professional tennis player, that I could win Wimbledon or championships, or something like this.

A spokesman said customising the lifts showed the force could be "professional and still have a sense of humour".

Over the course of a conversation, about their new movie "The Light Between Oceans," they could be professional, even distant.

"People who are sexologists could be professional dominatrixes or switches," said Nicoletta Heidegger, a marriage and family therapy intern and co-host of the Sluts and Scholars podcast.

Storck said then that as the staff were part-time they could not be professional, but there was a sense that, surrounded by Hungarians, he felt isolated.

All I could do was be professional and be available".

If she wasn't a movie star, the only other job she could have would be professional fairy".

The Economist's readers, it could be argued, are professionals who can afford price increases.

In 1911, only one in 14 jobs was could be classed professional.