How to Use arena football in a Sentence

arena football

noun
  • Louisville's new arena football team will have to wait a year to play.
    Kelly Ward, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Several players talked about what the fans can expect from the fast pace of arena football.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2018
  • This is not the first time the arena football team has ran into difficulties.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2021
  • The team will have to replicate the dimensions and boundary walls for arena football.
    Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Dallas Wings could relocate there or an arena football team could be added.
    Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Got into an arena football camp and played one game for the Milwaukee Mustangs.
    Bruce Feldman, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • His first head coaching job was with the Louisville Fire, an arena football team, in 2002.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2022
  • By design, arena football fields fit perfectly inside the dimensions of a hockey rink.
    Ryan Finley, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • The fighting had to go if the NHL was going to craft a profile better than, say, box lacrosse or arena football.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Nothing to note all the big-name rock concerts, the indoor-soccer franchise (the original Avalanche), the arena football team.
    John Branch, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • After a brief stint playing arena football, Gamble dedicated himself to training full-time.
    Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • And Warner should know, given his roundabout entry — via arena football — into the NFL.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Bush played college football at Western Michigan and spent 13 seasons playing arena football.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 30 June 2021
  • He was also booted from an arena football league for failing to meet its financial obligations as the owner of the Albany Empire.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Tally Adams will serve as coach for Thunder, bringing 22 years of coaching and playing experience in arena football.
    Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Joshua Bush, a former assistant coach at Miami Northwestern and arena football player, takes over this season in his first year as a head coach.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • His father, a former professional arena football player with his own large social media following, began to post videos of the bespectacled, ebullient child doing sports tricks.
    Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Nelson played college football at Mesabi Range, a junior college in Minnesota, and later spent time with the Utah Blaze arena football team.
    Jon Poorman, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Only four Preds players entered the season with arena football experience, including three that remain on roster from the 2019 team.
    J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com, 18 June 2021
  • Mudge gets the opportunity to continue pursuing his NFL dream after spending the past four seasons playing arena football.
    USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2017
  • The Spartans and the Punishers are the latest chapter in the spotty history of Colorado arena football, which has been unable to sustain long-term momentum.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • During his career, Curry also worked other sporting events including the Portland Winterhawks, arena football and professional indoor soccer and lacrosse.
    oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Pro sports The Phoenix metropolitan area boasts teams in seven professional sports — baseball, basketball, football, hockey, women's basketball, arena football and soccer.
    azcentral, 15 May 2015
  • The Bay Area has been host to successful arena football in the past, as the San Jose SaberCats won four Arena Football League championships between their inception in 1995 and their folding in 2015.
    Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After college, Smith spent three seasons in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts and Shreveport Pirates, before finishing his pro career in 1996 with the Albany Firebirds of the AF2 arena football league.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025

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