How to Use callow in a Sentence

callow

adjective
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  • Even his callow early work is true to the mood of change.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • The Sox had to claim players off waivers and promote callow prospects to fill the holes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • And who knows how the callow Oilers would react to that?
    — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The childhood death of her daughter Robin is invoked for callow laughs.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 13 July 2017
  • Those flaws could be seen as the reckless mistakes of callow disrupters.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 8 June 2019
  • The callow young Yvain, as a protagonist, isn’t learning to be king, like Arthur is, or even learning to be good.
    — Maile Meloy, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Some read as callow and lazy, while others as wholly compelling.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 May 2018
  • That version has its own callow charm, a pretty if earnest performance that only hints at the song’s depths.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • But Gould, a deep thinker and restless interpreter, came to see the recording as an artifact of his callow youth.
    — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché.
    — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Rachel is, of course, more than a match for the passionate and well-meaning but ultimately callow Philip.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • The success of an offense without starting QB questions and loaded at the skill positions hinges on the growth of a callow O-line.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • One of my callow missteps was in planting a formal hedge as the pretentious backbone of my first garden.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • But none of that should disguise quite how callow, how dismal, P.S.G.’s elimination was.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • This was not a callow performer thrown into a TV starring role, as so often has happened in the medium's history.
    — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • Strife and suffering are a refiner’s fire; the pieties of a soft prosperity are callow, empty, thin.
    — Ross Douthat, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover-up of what really happened.
    — baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The script, penned by playwright Clifford Odets, called for Presley to play a callow country boy loaded with literary talent.
    — Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
  • Deacon hoped this time his talented yet callow squad would be able to play to its potential and avoid too many final-round dramatics.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021
  • His callow-millennial act — and the navel-gazing vagaries of modern content culture — make fertile ground for satire, and many of the jokes here do find their soft targets.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 July 2022
  • Lowery opted to make Gawain a callow young man who aspires to earn the right to join the Knights of the Round Table by proving his honor and bravery—confronting some hard truths about himself along his journey.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021
  • This may seem melodramatic to you now, but the moment was more than a callow teen-ager, mostly unacquainted with death or real pain, could bear.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Jackson had callow wideouts and an overwhelmed rookie QB.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 11 May 2018
  • This brings her into conflict with the callow Erik, who is fearful of being deposed in Oluf’s favor, and ultimately also with half the Union, as each of the nobles is forced to take sides.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In Dunn and Raskin’s book, which is told from the perspective of two college freshmen, this joint scorn for the world outside their double-helix is intended to come off as charming, if not a bit callow.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 10 Aug. 2017
  • There’s little overt menace to this Paul, who mostly registers as a sincere, sensitive, if callow hero-in-the-making.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The Gunners were once famous for nurturing callow foreigners but lost patience with that approach five years ago.
    — M.j., The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Headley paints a picture of reckless, callow men caught in a cycle of ecological self-destruction.
    — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Its first act, when the characters are youthful and callow, is delightfully comic.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 27 May 2018
  • Already teed up by Cawthorn's callow election night victory tweet, the outrage from the left was swift, and much of it focused specifically on Cawthorn's evangelism.
    — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 19 Nov. 2020

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