sportive

How to use sportive in a sentence

It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with freight through miry lanes.

Celebrate the bull among the cows, for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain.

They the sportive, the roaring, with bright spears, the shakers of the clouds have themselves glorified their greatness.

The theory was charming in itself, and only a woman like Edith, whose fancy had always been sportive, would have dreamed it.

He is restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tossed about by every sportive billow.

He becomes restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tost about by every sportive billow.

Her natural volatility and satirical humour are now transformed to chastened vivacity and the sportive sallies of innocent wit.

Up, up they rise on sportive wing, till the straining eye can no longer distinguish them, and they are gone!

HUDSON BAYR.M. BALLANTYNE

Their sportive fancy that they were guests in the hotel and nothing ailed the world just then held true.

Truth, I have a pretty sportive conceit new crept into my brain, will move excellent mirth.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985