Sentence examples for rank beginner from inspiring English sources

It takes a strange kind of foolhardiness to step straight back in again as a rank beginner in a range of unfamiliar genres.

For a rank beginner, this was unforgiving water, and I had to stop for a few minutes to collect myself before I tried again.

Mr. Potts was no rank beginner, having sung opera with amateur companies before a 2003 bicycling accident saddled him with health problems and medical bills.

What is wonderful about the strategy game Medieval: Total War is that it seems to have unlimited depth and yet can be enjoyed by a rank beginner.

A rank beginner soon swamped by a flood of mail, she began sending batches of letters to her sister — for advice, as it were.

HOW does it feel to be the absolute best at your job, certified by computer, and for three weeks every year be made to look like a rank beginner?

But it seems to me we're just rank beginners at love.

On offer are various one-day, weekend and week-long residential courses for everyone from rank beginners to gourmets.

Like the FE-2 and FA cameras, the N8008 is intended for the "advanced amateur enthusiast". Roughly translated, that means all of us folks who fall between rank beginners and the ranks of working professionals.

The rank beginners might be thanked in the acknowledgments of a book; the next step is being credited on the title page; at the very top of the profession, their names appear on the book's cover.

But Mr. Little's book, "Bear-Proof Investing: Protecting Your Financial Future in a Bear Market and Taking Advantage of an Emerging Bull Market" (Alpha Books, $21.95), seems aimed at rank beginners, a flock of innocents who almost certainly should be hugging the sidelines at this perplexing juncture.