How to Use semiprofessional in a Sentence

semiprofessional

adjective

• In 2014, Nash played again in the semiprofessional Sugar Cane League.
  — Rob Neyer, New York Times, 5 May 2016
• 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
• 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
• Just fabulous food, new friends and a semiprofessional singer, who did the Four Questions justice.
  — Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Most of us are just avid home bakers, but one of our members was actually a semiprofessional.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 2 Mar. 2022
• Xiong did what any lonely and well-funded college kid would do: Hire a full-time IT team based out of China to make a website that connects lonely gamers to semiprofessional playmates.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Options were bleak: Latch on with a semiprofessional or independent league, or give up their big-league dream altogether.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 June 2021
• 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
• So did seven of eight who played professional football in Canada and nine of 14 semiprofessional players.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2017
• Laila Shabir, 32, founded Girls Make Games—which has hosted game-development workshops for girls in over 50 cities around the world—after starting her own game studio with her husband, a semiprofessional gamer.
  — Marie Claire, 5 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Of 14 participants who had played semiprofessional football, nine had CTE.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 25 July 2017
• Adam Mann, a British model and semiprofessional soccer player, joined for similar reasons.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hernandez still was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after being convicted in 2015 of first-degree murder in the death of former semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd.
  — Kevin Spain, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• Versatile footwear; use in casual and semiprofessional settings.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• Today, the Top League -- Japan's semiprofessional rugby league that supplies most of its international players -- is comprised of corporate teams, specifically from iron, steel, auto-making, and manufacturing industries which employ the players.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
• An intercity rivalry Minneapolis and St. Paul were rivals in semiprofessional or professional baseball for nearly 80 years.
  — Star Tribune, 3 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024