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

With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

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

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