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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

Liverpudlian Powell is an all-around sportsman who shot to fame in 2018 when he appeared on ITV show Ninja Warrior UK, becoming the first person with a visual impairment to take part.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024

I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady