sportsman

Example Sentences

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“A lot of people paint me as a moderate because I’m a sportsman and I have a deer rifle and I go duck hunting and stuff like that.”

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2025

Uganda’s Idi Amin tried to use boxing and his image as a sportsman to build popularity and distract from his regime’s repression in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

Being a sportsman, doing stuff like this and just being myself, letting my emotions out - especially the Leeds crowd.

From BBC • May 29, 2025

More than anything, I will remember him as a sportsman with few peers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

For the shortest second, the boys thought Flux had given up and taken the lost race like a good sportsman.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles