sportsman

Example Sentences

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But becoming an elite sportsman still means starting learning your trade at a very young age, and a lot of personal sacrifices.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

“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

But the extreme sportsman was best known for his space leap.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Second, My Lord 02-06, if I may call him so, is an avid sportsman, and in the wilds of New-York he shall find plenty of scope for unusual chases and kills.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson