sportsman

Example Sentences

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Former Manchester United and England star David Beckham has become Britain's first billionaire sportsman, according to the 2026 Sunday Times Rich List.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“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

Kagame describes himself more as a sports fan than a sportsman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

Hughes represented youth and vitality, as a 25-year-old sportsman.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 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