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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Lieutenant Commander Rob Andrews, who was at RAF Valley as a trainee while William was stationed there, said: "I know he's got an affinity with this place."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

A gladiator, it seems, moved up the ranks—often through training and victories in the arena—“like a trainee orator moving from imaginary speeches to those of the courtroom.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

At the time, the journal preserved her dignity: she might look and behave like and live the life of a trainee nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan