greenhorn

Example Sentences

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So to Ellis last August went a greenhorn trainer, Hamilton, then 28.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2022

I was listening to them talk of quality and seasonability when the young perfumer, with all the indelicacy of a greenhorn, announced, “I have some oudh.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

Instead, it was McIlroy that looked like the greenhorn.

From Golf Digest • May 5, 2019

I’d recommend it for the Chabon greenhorn on up.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Fresh arrivals to the Valentine farm made it so Cora was no longer the greenhorn, bumbling about.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead