Sentence examples for tenderfoot from inspiring English sources
The word "tenderfoot" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone who is inexperienced, especially in outdoor activities or a particular field. Example: "As a tenderfoot in the hiking community, she was eager to learn from the more experienced members." Alternatives include "novice" or "rookie."
noun
An inexperienced person; a novice
Her love stories are extraordinarily popular in Sweden just as the Gothic tales of Minette Walters are extraordinarily popular in both Sweden and Germany.Ingrid Noll is a comparative tenderfoot, but she is already known as "Germany's queen of crime" and is one of only two native writers (the other is Gaby Hauptmann) on a German list dominated by foreigners.
Since around 1980, he has used exclusively an angular font he designed and calls Boy Scout Utility Modern (he was a Tenderfoot).
In the book's first story, "Tenderfoot," an art historian, newly arrived in town, spies from his third-floor bathroom on a pedicure parlor (he is interested in its widowed owner): "One dark afternoon Bobby saw the red-cheeked chemistry professor and his wife side by side on the chairs as if driving to the movies".
Note to self: Get a flashlight, you dumb-ass tenderfoot.
It was a vigorous, hilly hike for this tenderfoot traveler: I skirted the turbine and a row of brambles, got lost, hopped over a few fences, was called after by hundreds of sheep, was overcome by an almost supernatural sense of peace, then got hungry, and ran into an American walking her dog in a deep, remote valley, who led me to a rescue road I likely would never have found.
The lens was fixed on Jerome Jordan, now the center at Tulsa but then a bone-thin, 6-foot-10 basketball tenderfoot whose organized game experience totaled one year.
Yet there are more new designers working in New York fashion than at any point in its history, a rush of tenderfeet that one can say with some certainty began in 2002, when Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, two students at Parsons the New School for Design, sold their senior collection to Barneys New York and became the toast of the industry with their label, Proenza Schouler.
In Washington, the eight Texas tenderfoots — three Republicans and five Democrats — are finding out where their offices are, how to hire staff, how payroll works, and some of the peculiarities and hazards of federal ethics laws.
And in the redistricting that followed, the Republican mapmakers found it impossible to protect all of the tenderfeet from the normal Democratic tendencies of their voters at home.
But there's an advantage to being a freshman in a big class like this one — as tenderfeet, they're not bound by deals and pacts made in previous sessions.
But leave it to big leaguers to find new ways to torment their tenderfoots.
