Sentence examples for something of a professional from inspiring English sources

Mr. Packer, a highway repairman, moonlights as something of a professional talker.

Processing these fragments is Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a teenager who is also something of a professional runaway.

Having done stints as a theater critic and a reporter covering the media in the 2000 presidential campaign, I have become something of a professional audience of one.

In return, the deli workers would keep Mr. Hann well-caffeinated with free coffee, making him something of a professional meter feeder, depositing coins every hour - most recently, it was four quarters for an hour.

Richard Dawkins, the author of "The Selfish Gene" and many other popular books on evolution, has in recent years become something of a professional atheist, arguing that "faith is one of the world's great evils".

Tynon is something of a professional disaster volunteer, an unpaid career that started on February 9 , 1971 when the Sylmar earthquake destroyed the Olive View hospital, near his house in suburban Los Angeles.

It didn't, however, stop Marie's remarkable work on edition after edition, while living as something unheard of: a professional woman writer.

Most writers enjoy the occasional tipple, and I certainly like to fancy myself as something of a semi-professional dipsomaniac, but he puts all but the most dedicated of us to shame.

If you are unsure of something, ask a professional.

The ascendancy of Richard Jones, the soldier-turned-showman who won Britain's Got Talent on Saturday after a series of magical performances, therefore came as something of a surprise to professional rivals, some of whom say there was a distinct sense of deja vu watching his final act.

Whether Trump's behavior is actually a sign of mental illness is something only a professional assessment could determine, and it's unknown whether Trump has ever sought one.