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, 8 Aug. 2020
• Everybody did, from the Stones to the smallest semipro band.
  — Dorian Lynskey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The group hopes to call their team the Nashville Stars, in tribute to a semipro Negro leagues team.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2022
• At age 13 or so, Grant played third base for a local semipro team and worked part-time in a mill.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 12 June 2021
• He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• 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, 13 June 2021
• Smith’s first game with the team came two weeks later, at a field in South Park against another semipro team.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Harry Rose played for the then-semipro Cincinnati Bengals.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• Ashford went on to work for the Post Office while playing semipro baseball.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
• His father played semipro ball well enough to have been offered a minor league contract by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• An upstate New York farm boy grows up the hard way after going to Canada to play semipro hockey.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Morrell, a former semipro player who coached his son through high school, can barely sleep the night before a game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Ocie Williams, a 27-year-old semipro player, crouched into a defensive stance.
  — Joshua Needelman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• 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, 15 Feb. 2023
• Her dad, who worked in construction, managed a semipro baseball team.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2022
• Mickey Deutschman, long-time junior college and high school baseball coach, scout, and the driving force behind the semipro Barona Stars, died Wednesday night.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• His father worked for Con Edison and played on its semipro baseball team, and his mother was a bookkeeper at an A&P grocery.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2020
• Brito, a former minor league catcher who still played in his spare time, was facing Castillo in a semipro game in East Los Angeles.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• His mother was a homemaker, his father a coal miner and semipro pitcher.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• His father, who had played semipro baseball, encouraged Bobby to play ball.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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, 12 Sep. 2021
• The Czech Republic is fielding a team made almost entirely of native players from its own semipro league.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2023
• Everything from beer leagues to semipro sports are organized so that every team has chance at victory.
  — Ethan Davison, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• The multisport athlete also played semipro football and tennis.
  — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
• 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, 5 Aug. 2020
• 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, 11 Apr. 2023
• On Tuesday, famed emergency backup goalie Scott Foster pitched in at practice, as did Čech, who now plays semipro hockey after retiring from soccer.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• 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, 1 Mar. 2021
• That means the players traveled across the country playing against local semipro teams or other barnstorming teams, including White professional teams.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• 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, 10 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024