How to Use semiprofessional in a Sentence

semiprofessional

adjective
  • It’s been a decade since most players worked part-time jobs while playing for their respective clubs in semiprofessional leagues.
    — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
  • Most of us are just avid home bakers, but one of our members was actually a semiprofessional.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Beauty products that achieve semiprofessional results at home.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The licenses go up in price with each tier at the semiprofessional and professional levels.
    — Doha Madani, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Just fabulous food, new friends and a semiprofessional singer, who did the Four Questions justice.
    — Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The fitness buff and semiprofessional soccer player is trying to create a new life with her 40-year-old boyfriend, Naked.
    — ELLE, 19 Mar. 2022
  • This is someone who hadn’t played above Serbia’s semiprofessional third division until last season.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • His father was a factory worker and a former semiprofessional baseball player and boxer.
    — Dave Sheinin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2020
  • In the past few years, he’s also transformed into a fashion renegade, an emerging social critic, a semiprofessional wrestler and a budding actor.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • In 2014, Nash played again in the semiprofessional Sugar Cane League.
    — Rob Neyer, New York Times, 5 May 2016
  • So did seven of eight who played professional football in Canada and nine of 14 semiprofessional players.
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2017
  • Adam Mann, a British model and semiprofessional soccer player, joined for similar reasons.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • In some instances, the body-hugging numbers almost feel modest enough to be placed in the semiprofessional category, thanks to high necklines and ankle-grazing lengths.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Rangers, after years of mismanagement, went into liquidation and was forced to start life again in Scotland’s semiprofessional fourth tier.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Versatile footwear; use in casual and semiprofessional settings.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The 20-year-old had left their home in Melbourne nine months earlier to play semiprofessional rugby on the opposite side of the country in Perth.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But the country’s semiprofessional military relies heavily on conscripts and reservists, which places it at a disadvantage in many respects.
    — Andrew Exum, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Chicago Tribune marked the birth of a baseball league for Black players with a yawn and an occasional box score atop a list of semiprofessional teams’ results.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Of 14 participants who had played semiprofessional football, nine had CTE.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 25 July 2017
  • This is someone who hadn’t played above the semiprofessional Serbian third division before coming stateside in fall 2018.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • While his father’s semiprofessional career was a bust his girlfriend, Xiomara Guerrero, is a three-time Colombian mountain bike champion.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • Less than a decade ago, Rangers was reduced to playing in Scotland’s semiprofessional fourth tier as a punishment for years of financial mismanagement and chicanery.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • His father worked various jobs, including as a salesman, a bouncer and a semiprofessional baseball player, before becoming a musician and joining his sons’ act.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Right now, amateur or semiprofessional shows prevail, as Actors Equity union guidelines are still too stringent for many professional theaters to handle.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 23 June 2021
  • Last week, after an important game in the country’s popular semiprofessional baseball league, fans participated in a caravan that ended with a rally in the town of Jinotepe’s main square.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Feel the vibrations as an array of Japanese drums — from as small as a snare to as large as a car — resonate deeply through your body in an exuberant concert, performed by professional and semiprofessional taiko ensembles.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Investigators searched the house in connection with the recent killing of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semiprofessional football player from Boston.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • With 21 different products to choose from, LG manufactures microwaves for every type of customer, from the hungry college student to the semiprofessional home chef.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Betty Gilpin and Alison Brie continue to hold the emotional center as two estranged best friends, surprised to be dedicating their lives to semiprofessional wrestling on a dingy, low-budget local show.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • In England, the National League — the largely semiprofessional competition below the four professional tiers — intends to wrap up its season entirely as soon as possible.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020

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