How to Use sportive in a Sentence

sportive

adjective

• The path there is a sportive mash-up of fact and fiction.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• There are glimpses of a version of the series that’s more sportive, less self-serious.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• There is, from the outset, a sportive tension to the relationship between the two women.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2020
• About 80 percent of these sportive lemurs have been wiped out during the past two decades because of habitat loss and hunting, and fewer than a hundred are thought to survive today.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Animals, 14 Dec. 2020
• In general, the ride quality is sportive but not punishing.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 23 June 2020
• Examples in the show from his time in Paris include small, sportive portraits of an uncle and, from 1866, a life-size, heroically clunky one of his father reading a leftist newspaper—which the starchy patriarch would not have liked.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2011
• Complimenti davvero, sei stata una delle migliori figure sportive nella quale mi sono imbattuto.
  — SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• In Montagne des Français, the exclusive habitat of the northern sportive lemur—a seven-inch tall, grayish-brown animal known for its shrill screams—patrols have identified areas newly denuded for charcoal production.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Animals, 14 Dec. 2020
• The reader is also provided essential details about Heller’s memorial service, where to send donations, and who survives him — but even these particulars are delivered in a sportive spirit of fun-poking and wit.
  — NBC News, 21 Sep. 2019
• These expedition-style vessels attract nature-minded, science-curious and sportive travelers, who revel in the great outdoors.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• On South Beach, more sportive activities include beachside volleyball, basketball and soccer, glass-bottom kayaking, paddle boarding and Zorbs, in which riders enter giant inflatable balls.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018

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