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

Fishing Now that our heavy labours in building our hut and securing our supply of food were over, we had leisure to indulge ourselves in lighter and more sportive avocations.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

In others, again, it flashes and sparkles, more sportive than tender.

From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel