How To Use Dabbler In A Sentence

  • Our two most common ducks, Mallard and American Black Duck, are dabblers, as are teals (like the Green-winged Teal we saw on New Year's Day) and wigeons.
  • I'm a dilettante, a dabbler, and it was easy for many years to let that keep me on the sidelines.
  • Despite his bravura, Che's father, like many dabblers, never found real success, and the Guevaras weren't wealthy, whatever their pedigree.
  • It is worth noting that most young criminals are dabblers and not persistent offenders.
  • Although Ms. Amato, 28, was a "dabbler" cook, her husband's idea of a fine meal was a fried bologna sandwich, she says. Cutting Costs at Culinary School
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  • I am a retired engineer and occasional dabbler in inventions.
  • From the best authorities, it appears that the Hebrew word, which has been rendered _venefica_ and _witch_, means a poisoner and divineress, a dabbler in spells, or fortune-teller. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • Dabblers like the mallard seem to demand that the spiral moves clockwise from the eye over the full round forehead.
  • The golf course has been done up to resume its rivalry of Gleneagles and Turnberry; and, for the dabbler, there's a nine-hole putting green on the lawn, next to the croquet and boules.
  • Dabbler - rate/recco/discuss videos, no matter where they're hosted Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives
  • There's the jazz student, the angry punk, the rock purist, the classical dabbler, the pop traditionalist, and the roots traveller. Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Nov. 2
  • To create Shakespeare suited for both purists and dabblers, guest director Tracy relies on her cast's ability to charge the text with physicality and meaning.
  • Suffice it to say that CBS needs to get going with the premium media delivery if wants to transition from "dabbler" status to something with a vested interest in tapping the social media space to full (est) effect. Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • Scroll -- Another Wandering Scroll -- A Montagnana Instrument shot through the body -- Fiddle Marks and the Credulous Dabblers -- "Guarneri" at a The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
  • From the best authorities, it appears that the Hebrew word, which has been rendered, venefica, and witch, means a poisoner and divineress -- a dabbler in spells, or fortune-teller. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
  • The couple's debut project-for-profit, a farmhouse in west Cork, has just come on the market, but they've been amateur dabblers for years.
  • If they were pioneering dabblers in Freudian analysis, Carrie and her colleagues could be their true heirs.
  • Other main characters are Queen Jehanne, former top Night Court "adept" ie former top courtesan of Terre Ange and second wife of King Daniel Courcel, her lover and dabbler in magical arts Raphael de Mereliot, elderly Ch'in wizard Lo Feng and his factotum disciple and martial arts expert Bao who are honored guests of the Angeline court, as well as quite a few others that you will encounter in the fullness of time. Archive 2009-06-01
  • She suggests that the growth offered by buy-to-let property has resulted in "dabbler" landlords who, facing an economic downturn, are harassing tenants and seem unaware that evicting renters without notice can be acrime. Is the recession fuelling a rise in unlawful evictions?
  • Gadwalls forage mainly while swimming, either taking items from the surface or dabbling in shallow water, or diving, which they are more likely to do than most other dabblers.
  • I'm just 'dabbler' in the soap world, but I love seeing you link and talk about all the wonderful products. Using 3-D Molds - Unmolding
  • He was the son of Silken Thomas and as a result of being educated in Italy he came to be recognised as a dabbler in the occult arts.
  • This isn't surprising when even the groups he does encounter, such as the peace activists, also seem to see themselves as dabblers and eccentrics rather than as committed individuals.
  • Vida was a known dabbler in the black arts, but also a procuress for Mr. Prince.
  • As I evolved as a writer, from navel-high producer of galactic space operas to fuzz-sprouting fantasist imagining nonexistent island countries, to university dabbler in more-or-less realistic short stories to twentysomething unpublished novelist, I became more and more interested in the interactive nature of fiction. Mohsin Hamid on writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • He's not a dedicated musician, just a dabbler.
  • Weatherbee was a clerk who had known naught but clerking all his life; Cuthfert was a master of arts, a dabbler in oils, and had written not a little. In a Far Country
  • Perhaps tools like moviolas might have more efficiently weeded out the dabblers - it's hard to say since moviolas were part of a more elitist type of technology and denied many an opportunity.
  • My aims will mostly be self-work, so I'm starting out as an unawakened dabbler.
  • Each kit comes with full instructions, enabling even the most amateur DIY dabbler to put together their own boat.
  • The knowledgeable Columbia University alum and erstwhile "dabbler" estimated that about 30 Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • James Franco, actor and dabbler extraordinaire, will appear with "My Own Private River," a fan's tribute to actor River Phoenix that repurposes footage shot for and during Gus Van Sant's 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho. A Wide World of Voices
  • He's not a dedicated musician but a dabbler.
  • In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound.
  • This was the heyday of apple breeding by head gardeners, nurserymen and dabblers. Times, Sunday Times

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