aficionado

in a sentence

Despite the orgiastic rituals once held at the Arc du Carrousel, art aficionados revered this place for another reason entirely.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados?†  (source) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011

Were his mother and father musicians or aficionados who filled the house with the sounds of Beethoven and Ernest Bloch, B —L— —C-H?†  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

The aficionados would be whispering among themselves now: "See how he stands.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

You might like to read Mrs. Moodie's poem 'The Maniac,' if you are an aficionado of Sir Walter Scott.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

If you go through that history and keep count, the number of worlds that Lois has belonged to comes to eight: the actors, the writers, the doctors, the lawyers, the park-lovers, the politicians, the railroad buffs, and the flea market aficionados.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

People always assume that because I am into classical music, I'm a jazz aficionado.†  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

Meanwhile, cocaine dealers and aficionados across the country, and perhaps also in the Caribbean and South America, were working on a safer version of distilled cocaine.†  (source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005

She now recalled that her grandfather—a wordplay aficionado and art lover—had entertained himself as a young man by creating anagrams of famous works of art.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The beach culture had developed long before the Beach Boys released their first Top 40 hit, "Surfin' Safari," in 1962, and Jan and Dean their "Surf City" in 1963, with their utterly hedonistic message: Yeah, and there's two swingin' honeys for every guy And all you gotta do is just wink your eye These and other songs the Beach Boys Web site now calls "eternal anthems of American youth," and the millions of records they sold helped spread what had been to aficionados not just a sport but a whole way of life, lived on the beach, salt-caked and suntanned, with their own insider vocabulary.†  (source) Robert MacNeil and William Crane, Do You Speak American?, 2005

Your friend, is he aficionado, too?†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

It is worth recording that the aficionados were so shaken that only one in ten asked for their money back, and also that the London Daily Mirror made matters much worse by suggesting that the Spaniards adopt cricket as a new national sport.†  (source) Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End, 1953

But he's not aficionado like you.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926