How to Use ice hockey in a Sentence
ice hockey
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Who's hot in Greater Cincinnati high school ice hockey?
—James Weber, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2021
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Back in the third grade, Sachs was playing recreation soccer when her team was invited to try out for a girls ice hockey team.
—Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 15 Apr. 2021
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Pearson didn’t have an update for the ice hockey committee on the status of any potential appeal.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
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There is no reason that greedy NHL owners could not spend some of their money to figure out a way to make ice hockey watchable.
—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
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Like every sport, ice hockey has required plenty of adjustments from its players to keep on going during the pandemic.
—James Weber, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2021
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Glenbrook North High School state champions include Spartans ice hockey.
—Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
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The Jabra Speak2 75 is about the size of an ice hockey puck out of the box.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
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Kent played both lacrosse and ice hockey of the Eagles.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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There’s no ice hockey in the Summer Olympics, of course.
—Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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In the summer of 2015, the future of ice hockey in China looked promising.
—Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2021
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Perhaps its highest-profile role was as the host of the ice hockey games in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
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Karen was talking about how their twins are playing ice hockey for the first time and loving the new rink in town.
—John Kenney, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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For kids growing up in East Baltimore, ice hockey is rarely the sport of choice.
—Shawn Hubbard, New York Times, 21 May 2022
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Slovakia upset the United States in men's ice hockey in one of the biggest shocks of the Winter Olympics.
—Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
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In ice hockey and field hockey, a hat trick is when a player scores three goals in a single game.
—Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2021
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In various sports such as soccer or ice hockey, the team that scores first has a much greater chance of winning the game.
—Brent Dykes, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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For the director, the ice hockey team called to mind a flock of birds always moving in the same direction.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
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But not all the videos showing up between clips of ice hockey and speed skating were pro-China.
—Morgan Meaker, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
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He gets absorbed in all-male games, like stick ball and ice hockey, while Remi looks on from behind a glass wall.
—Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
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With areas in town that were used for the big event, many teams from ice hockey to skiing flock to the area for practice and tournaments to use the Olympic venues.
—James Barrett, Redbook, 16 Mar. 2023
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Prior to winning gold in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, the U.S. women's national ice hockey team fought for equal pay and won.
—Christopher Brito, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2022
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Ash began to play ice hockey at age 5, and her passion for this sport continues to grow.
—Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
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Boyd is one of the few Black orthopedic surgeons who has served as a team physician in the NFL, and also in one of the whitest of sports, ice hockey.
—Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 13 Dec. 2021
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For a stretch of three games from the end of January to the beginning of February, the Conard boys ice hockey team couldn’t figure out a way to win.
—Lori Riley, courant.com, 16 Mar. 2022
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Azarenka’s son plays ice hockey, soccer and golf, as well as tennis.
—Simon Cambers, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
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Here, in the part of Canada that likes to think of itself as the center of the country — and as the center of ice hockey — the N.H.L. playoffs quickly and predictably withered.
—New York Times, 17 May 2022
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Now, just over a decade later, Tianjin has three big ice hockey rinks and a full youth league comprising around 20 teams.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
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The new rinks will host figure skating and ice hockey, as well as low income and after-school programs.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
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Sweden beats Switzerland 3-2 in a shootout for the gold medal at the world ice hockey championship in Copenhagen, Denmark.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
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Zachary and Gregory, Nicola’s younger twin brothers, are ice hockey players who prefer to keep out of the spotlight.
—Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 8 June 2024
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