sportsman

Example Sentences

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Kovalskiy, who was brought up to not point a rifle at a person when shooting as a sportsman, said there is one aspect of his old work that he doesn’t miss: killing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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

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

This is bound to get me a bad name as a sportsman, but let me say at once that I have nothing against the killing of animals.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck