sportively

Example Sentences

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"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.

From BBC • May 22, 2023

Even the costumes, by Hahnji Jang, are sportively eclectic, with clashing patterns and colors — along with additional anachronistic details, like hoop earrings and sneakers.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2021

Even so, New Yorkers assailed by chill night—and, for a frozen instant, silence—reacted almost sportively, as if it were all a gigantic game of blindman's buff.

From Time Magazine Archive

For her, his obsession is a game, something to engage her imagination more sportively than the German grammar she's supposed to be studying that afternoon in the park.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sportively, the Arch-Community-Songster caught hold of it, sportively he pulled, pulled.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley