How to Use ice hockey in a Sentence

ice hockey

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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
  • Kent played both lacrosse and ice hockey of the Eagles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There’s no ice hockey in the Summer Olympics, of course.
    — Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Most ice hockey sticks feature some sort of a curve in the blade.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The two broke their talks to play ice hockey and were due to meet again Saturday.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The Northern Kentucky Norse high school ice hockey team has been heating up the rinks for the past few years.
    — James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In the summer of 2015, the future of ice hockey in China looked promising.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Who's hot in Greater Cincinnati high school ice hockey?
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • For kids growing up in East Baltimore, ice hockey is rarely the sport of choice.
    — Shawn Hubbard, New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • High-risk sports, such as football, wrestling and ice hockey, can practice but cannot play.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • First of all, no kid who is on a travel soccer team of any note is going to have time to play lacrosse and ice hockey.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Monster crowds have filled the place for ice hockey, the Grateful Dead and Wrestlemania.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • New York does not allowed ice hockey, classified as high-risk, to be played in- or out-of-state.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In winter and spring McCaughey plays ice hockey and baseball for the Bombers.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2020
  • But not all the videos showing up between clips of ice hockey and speed skating were pro-China.
    — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Couple that with Petr Cech's recent signing as an ice hockey player, and...well, who else could mix it up in a new sport?
    — SI.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The firm later expanded into field and ice hockey equipment.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The 1996 classic follows Gilmore, an unsuccessful ice hockey player with a forceful slapshot and a very short temper.
    — Luke Chinman, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024

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