sportive

Example Sentences

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For once there was a justification for Mr. Koolhaas’s sportive diagonals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed road cycle sportive, taking cyclists on a route around the Loch, finishing in Inverness.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2022

We met in a sportive context, how’s that?

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2020

It was the only logical explanation; she must have misunderstood the true meaning of the conversation, for she was not used to grown men jesting with one another in such a free and sportive way.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood