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
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
The air was clear and invigorating; I was feeling braced up and buoyant; and as for Jip and Bang, I never saw them in a more sportive, energetic mood.
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
I speak not of their commercial enterprise and its gross equipage, but of ice-fishing in its more sportive and desultory form, as it is pursued by country boys and the incorrigible village idler.
From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry
