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
Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout �a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike.
From Time Magazine Archive
Think how much more sportive that will be!
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.
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 Seward, Anna
A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
