How to Use semipro in a Sentence

semipro

adjective or noun
  • Bender was pitching for a semipro team when a scout for the A's signed him.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 2020-08-08
  • Everybody did, from the Stones to the smallest semipro band.
    — Dorian Lynskey, Los Angeles Times, 2022-10-25
  • Her dad, who worked in construction, managed a semipro baseball team.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 2022-03-29
  • His mother was a homemaker, his father a coal miner and semipro pitcher.
    — Washington Post, 2020-12-30
  • Ashford went on to work for the Post Office while playing semipro baseball.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 2022-04-10
  • Harry Rose played for the then-semipro Cincinnati Bengals.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2022-09-23
  • The group hopes to call their team the Nashville Stars, in tribute to a semipro Negro leagues team.
    — New York Times, 2022-05-29
  • At age 13 or so, Mr. Grant played third base for a local semipro team but also worked part-time in a mill.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2021-06-13
  • His father played semipro ball well enough to have been offered a minor league contract by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2020-03-30
  • Smith is eager to play at the next level, whether that means the minors leagues or perhaps even something such as semipro ball in Europe.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-02-15
  • The multisport athlete also played semipro football and tennis.
    — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 2023-02-24
  • Although most of the scores have been lost to time, the Wolverines were competitive, playing local high schools, factory teams and semipro squads.
    — Richard Bak, Detroit Free Press, 2021-09-12
  • There will be a multi-region series and an academy with monthly tournaments to give more opportunities to players at the semipro and grassroots levels.
    — Shlomo Sprung, Forbes, 2021-03-01
  • Rooney, who before purchasing the franchise played semipro baseball and was an amateur boxing champion, forged a reputation as humble, compassionate and fatherly.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 2019-08-28
  • His entrenchment in the community deepened as the one-time semipro football player was a volunteer football coach at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, using his own basement as the team’s locker room.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 2023-04-11
  • Refusing to completely give up on his dream of playing pro ball, DeLunas ignored his shoulder’s deteriorating condition and played in a semipro men’s league for three or four years before reality finally set in.
    — Alexa Philippou, The Seattle Times, 2018-08-28
  • His father was a semipro soccer player who lost his leg in an injury during the 1920s and after World War II made fluorescent lighting fixtures in a factory.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 2020-08-05
  • Everything pointed to Hernandez’s conviction for murdering another footballer (semipro linebacker Odin Lloyd) — or at the very least a fair amount of psychological distress.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 2020-08-10

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