trainee

Example Sentences

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The trainee nurse and her Uber driver husband already have three children, aged 10, eight and six, and she worries about having more.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

One of the first things you do as a Mobil Oil trainee is you learn how to drive the tractor, turn it on, pull the lever.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

If I say to a trainee, “You’re flinching,” that puts it in his head.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

A 59-year-old from Glasgow with more than 20 years experience mentoring trainee paramedics believes many have struggled to make a career of it.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

“I suppose I am. How I go from transporting His Royal Deviousness, the Goblin King himself, to some trainee is beyond me...”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston