sportsmanlike

Example Sentences

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And if we see that you become loyal, fair and sportsmanlike to your fellow competitors, then you can stay in this business.

From BBC • May 8, 2024

Other English fans showed less sportsmanlike qualities, tweeting messages about how they were putting ketchup on their pasta.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2021

“A disgraceful spectacle might have been turned into a clean, sportsmanlike game of football,” he wrote.

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2020

Players shall at all times conduct themselves in a sportsmanlike manner and give due regard to the authority of officials and the rights of opponents, spectators and others.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2020

Most of the reporters, and much of the crowd, believed that Riddle had simply balked at the 132-pound impost and didn’t care enough about the consequences of scratching to do the sportsmanlike thing.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand