sportive

Example Sentences

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With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

From Los Angeles Times

She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.

From Salon

“With no thought of buying, the eye is sportive and generous; it creates; it adorns; it enhances,” Woolf writes.

From Los Angeles Times

Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed road cycle sportive, taking cyclists on a route around the Loch, finishing in Inverness.

From BBC

The sportive rhythm of the show doesn’t preclude tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times