SPORTIVE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SPORTIVE, such as:
1. Such a sportive attitude is surprising in a person as serious as you usually are.
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Meanings and Examples of SPORTIVE
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sportive
a. playful; relating to or interested in sports
Classic Sentence:
1 Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of talking to her brother.
2 Traddles would be often at the bottom of the staircase, looking on, and taking charge of sportive messages from Dora to the dearest girl in the world.
3 All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.
Example Sentence:
1 Such a sportive attitude is surprising in a person as serious as you usually are.