prentice
Example Sentences
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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The smith’s prentice laid a sympathetic hand on Carter’s shoulder.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"By the by, you two haven't met, have you? Widge, this is Chris Beeston. Not so long ago he was a lowly prentice like us."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
