Sentence examples for tyro from inspiring English sources

One of Hopcraft's lines in The Reporters, delivered by the grizzled hack (Robert Urquhart) to the tyro (Michael Kitchen) was, "All you need to know about journalism you can get from Dickens".

"These guys were Indi expats in Melbourne," says McGowan, signalling to her tyro allies.

Replacing her with Pym would embarrassingly make the crack cabal all-male, which increases the likelihood that tyro news and current affairs boss James Harding – who was at the FT and then business editor of the Times, before becoming the latter's editor – will look to the broadsheets (or possibly other broadcasters) in the hope of finding a woman.

So, 30 years after his tyro musings, Dr Baum (he is now a botanist at the University of Wisconsin) joined forces with his cousin Buzz Baum, a cell biologist at University College, London, to work them up into a scientific paper.

He fussed over her more than he ever did over any other tyro actress working with him.

In 1991, when tyro writer-director Quentin Tarantino offered him the role of Mr Blonde, the icy crook who boogies to Stealers Wheel before cutting off a cop's ear in Reservoir Dogs, Madsen resisted.

It seemed extraordinary that a 17-year-old should have the maturity to write something as considered as "Ghosts", but Marling was a young voice with an old heart, a quality shared with only a few tyro talents through the years, the rarefied likes of Dylan, Mitchell, Cohen, Simon and Jackson Browne.

Presented en masse like this, these 47 tracks depict a tyro talent struggling to keep up with his own muse, spewing out songs at such a rate that he can barely spare the time to jot them down.

They secured the signature of the much fancied midfield maestro Ross Barkley on a four-year contract at the end of last month and today they were pleased to announce that another England tyro, the centre-back John Stones, has been tied down with a new five-year deal.

If it's not quite the jump from Bob Dylan to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, it's the closest recent equivalent, a prodigious rate of development for such a tyro talent, all the more remarkable for not being reliant on significant musical progression, so much as raw songwriting ability.

By the end of that year, The Beatles had released a total of four albums in the UK, depicting a clear progression from the enthusiastic rock'n'soul covers and tyro songwriting efforts of Please Please Me and With the Beatles to the blossoming triumph of A Hard Day's Night and the folk-influenced thoughtfulness of Beatles for Sale.