How to Use apprentice in a Sentence

apprentice

1 of 2 noun
Definition of apprenticenext
Synonyms for apprenticenext
  • More than a dozen of the apprentices will learn to work at Tiffany & Co.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Coach Cal show who's still the master and who's the apprentice?
    — The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
  • There are four artists on the staff, as well as an apprentice.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • The king seeks a new apprentice and Asha hopes to work alongside him.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • One of these apprentices was destined to take over the business.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • His teen-age apprentice stood in my living room over a Tranströmer book.
    — Bianca Stone, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Cooking for the Maiko House, a drama about a home for apprentice geisha that’s as cozy as a warm bowl of homemade soup.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Her uncle and aunt were looking for an apprentice and thought of her.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Aon covers the apprentice’s salary, benefits, and the costs of tuition, fees and books.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The film tells a tale of a demon slayer who comes to the rescue of a young girl trapped in the underworld — and who then takes the kid on as an apprentice.
    — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • Half-hearted stints, in the next few years, as a legal apprentice and an army ensign proved just as abortive.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • After high school, John Boll worked briefly as a plumber’s apprentice and then found jobs in auto plants.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Then one apprentice guide was in a one-person safety kayak.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The Free Press' apprentice program has helped launch the career of many journalists.
    — Jewel Gopwani and Anjanette Delgado, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2023
  • However, the complaint dealt not with the lemonade stand, but with the apprentice program.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 27 June 2023
  • The term acolyte, though, is typically used to refer to a Sith apprentice.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Johnson was an apprentice engineer who sang on the side and was a young father and husband.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • He was expelled from school at 14 for failing to follow the rules and tried to land apprentice-level civil servant jobs, but couldn’t pass the tests.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Both very bad outcomes for an Egyptian apprentice like me.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
  • With the new workers added to the mix, Bass said apprentice Davion Hodges, 22, took over the court about three weeks ago, showing off his skills and personality.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But despite his prominence, Jumaev has not yet been able to find an apprentice who wants to learn how to, say, match colors in a kundal.
    — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Andrew bypassed college to work as a painter’s apprentice in Spain.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Kate shook hands and chatted with Action on Addiction clients who were working as apprentices in the kitchen.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In order to succeed, Maren must serve as the apprentice to the emperor's dragon trainer.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
  • Bachelor – a young knight or a young student, so a bachelor of arts or even a kind of young apprentice showing kind of men making their way in the world.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This was at odds with the oversubscribed culinary courses, or indeed any of the other trade and apprentice subjects.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Shortly after arriving around midday, the Princess of Wales toured the mill and met some of the company's apprentices and mentors.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The author, who served as Wright's apprentice during the 1950s, also offers a unique insight and analysis of Wright’s work.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The apprentices gain on-the-job training, a stronger portfolio and a new professional network.
    — Hilary Smith, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • For decades, a group of former apprentices of Jon Bannenberg, the godfather of yacht design, dominated the field with their trademark lavish style.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2024
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apprentice

2 of 2 verb
  • He apprenticed with a master carpenter for two years.
  • Roberts and Foulke will be able to apprentice on the set during the filmmaking process.
    — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The artist invited Totah, by then 22 years old, to apprentice with him for a few weeks.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • From the line to apprentice Thompson and Tran exemplify why GM has the program in place.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Master this section and move on to apprentice as a pastry chef.
    — Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • As a poor and orphaned 14-year-old, Jabez Gorham was apprenticed to a silversmith.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • Hiester apprenticed as a tool and die maker, loved the work, and did it until the company went bankrupt in 2000.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Driven to find work, David apprenticed to a merchant, but his debts mounted.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The firm's founder, John Lobb, had been apprenticed to a shoe-maker in Plymouth as a young man before walking to London in 1851 to further his skills.
    — Shane C. Kurup, Esquire, 7 June 2017
  • So, when do people born on the 29th (and not apprenticed to pirates) celebrate their birthday in those three off-years?
    — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Johnny is twenty-one, done with art school and apprenticed to an art framer and restorer.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2011
  • The shop also has two artists apprenticing with Meyer and Pulos.
    — Adriana Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
  • One winner each year apprentices at a top restaurant, then receives coaching by the Roux brothers.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • As a teenager, Bathsheba Demuth lived for a time with a Gwich’in family, apprenticed to a dog musher.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The company eventually found a more stylish niche thanks to François Goyard, who’d apprenticed for eight years before taking the helm (and changing the name) in 1853.
    — David Nash, Town & Country, 20 June 2017
  • Even as a boy Ferragamo was attracted by shoes and wanted to apprentice with the local cobbler.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Rich could have turned out like many of his childhood friends, apprenticing at a factory after middle school.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • After apprenticing with other top names, Givenchy founded his own house in 1952.
    — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Unlike apprenticed or employed Affinites who had honed their abilities for years, Ana had only a basic and crude control over hers.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • After dropping out of school at 13 to help support his family, he was apprenticed to a clothes dyer, a precursor to the modern dry cleaner.
    — Pamela Druckerman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
  • Cookie—a talented chef who, in his youth, had been indentured and apprenticed to a Boston baker—is a dreamer in other ways, too.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Real mastery of a craft is handed down from master to apprentice over an extended period of time.
    — George Bradt, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Each worker in any position has the opportunity to, say, apprentice on the farms, learn about beekeeping and be a part of some potential future growth.
    — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2020
  • This charming novel follows a young man who's plucked from obscurity to work for a sultan, apprenticing for a great master and helping to make great toys to delight the finicky royal.
    — The Editors, townandcountrymag.com, 1 June 2023
  • To master frame removal, Breitwieser became an expert at putting frames on by apprenticing in a high-quality frame shop.
    — Michael Finkel, Time, 14 June 2023
  • A few years after leaving Parsons, in an effort to further understand his vocation’s roots, Kaiser moved to Japan to apprentice with two master potters for a year each.
    — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Onishi came from a family of ramen chefs, apprenticing for his father after high school.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • He was apprenticed to a cotton mill owner and eventually became a supervisor at the mill.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2017
  • This comedic operetta tells the story of an upstanding young man who has been accidentally apprenticed to a band of tender-hearted pirates.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Some of you may wish to hear that Daddy’s money couldn’t overcome the long odds and that David is today no better off for his virtual high-school experience than the average twentysomething apprenticing in the family business.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023

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