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

The sportsman is one of the country's most decorated racers after winning three Grand Prix world titles in 2013, 2015 and 2018.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025

"That is what it is to play against Rafa in Spain. He is probably the biggest sportsman in Spain to have ever lived."

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2024

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