more sportive
Example Sentences
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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
The words "Winder," "Bender," "Twister," "Topper," and "Stunner," might be borrowed to designate money, which itself should change its present correct appellation for the more sportive and appropriate title of Blunt.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
With more harmonious tones, more sportive fire Beneath her hand arise the potent strains.
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward
Fishing Now that our heavy labours in building our hut and securing our supply of food were over, we had leisure to indulge ourselves in lighter and more sportive avocations.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
