Thesaurus / tenderfoot
FEEDBACKHow to use tenderfoot in a sentence
"Guess I ambles forth and sees what fer a tenderfoot it is," replied Billy, hastening from behind the bar.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEOnce a tenderfoot came through in the fall of the year, simply for the love of adventure.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEThe tenderfoot carried two short-barrelled Colt's revolvers, one of which he presented directly at Black Hank.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEThree hours later Billy and the sobered tenderfoot pulled into Deadwood.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEHe made the three hours of Billy and the tenderfoot in a little over an hour, because it was mostly down hill.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEThe decision of the committee was that the tenderfoot was undoubtedly crazy, harmless, and to be humoured—at a price.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITE"That'll be the best place for the tenderfoot," growled Lumpy Bates.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHIN"I thought you said I was no longer a tenderfoot," laughed Tad.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHINThe preacher whom they proposed to pull out of his difficulty proved that he was neither a tenderfoot nor a shirker.
HEROES OF TO-DAYMARY R. PARKMANHe looked so exactly like the old-fashioned western phrase which described the Eastern youth as a “tenderfoot.”
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT THE END OF THE TRAILMARGARET VANDERCOOKWORDS RELATED TO TENDERFOOT
- amateurs
- apprentices
- beginners
- colts
- converts
- cubs
- first of mays
- fledglings
- greenhorns
- gremlins
- know from nothings
- learners
- marks
- neophytes
- new kid on the blocks
- newcomers
- novitiates
- plebes
- postulants
- prentices
- probationers
- proselytes
- punks
- pupils
- recruits
- rookies
- starters
- students
- tenderfoots
- trainees
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