Sentence example with the word 'sportively'

sportively

Definition adv. in a merry sportive manner

Last update: July 9, 2015


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A small child sportively hurts his elder sister.   [Please select]

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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.   [Please select]

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All these quick and lively sallies were said sportively, quite in jest, and with a smile, which showed that he meant only wit.   [Please select]

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You won't be Brown long," he added, sportively."   [Please select]

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It was a habit of his to treat sportively even the subjects which he reverenced, and in reality she had sometimes felt him to be less of a sober cynic than herself.   [Please select]

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One day, as a little girl was amusing herself with a child, near Carlisle Bridge, Dublin, and was sportively toying with the child, he made a sudden spring from her arms, and in an instant fell into the river.   [Please select]

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It was left for me to discover that it represents Yoka, the goddess of Fun, sportively chasing the butterfly souls of men, while the urchins, the little Yokas, are crying, "Ma."   [Please select]

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Dale was so jolly with the children, running about, sportively chasing them, hunting for shells, popping the buds of seaweed; while Mavis sat on a dry bit of rock, looking large, red, overblown, and adored her family.   [Please select]

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