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
In others, again, it flashes and sparkles, more sportive than tender.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel
He was a philosopher, and was in the habit of making many of his tenets minister to his amusement, when in his more sportive and genial moods.
From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
