SPORTS in a Sentence

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269 example sentences for SPORTS, such as:

1. I admit that manly sports do not.
2. She loves all sports, especially swimming.
3. Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.
4. The sports meeting was held in the stadium.
5. The stands at the sports ground rake steeply.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPORTS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sports
 v.  wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
 n.  an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Her liveliest activity now was organizing outdoor sports in the motor-paralyzed town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I've been thinking about getting up an annual Community Day, when the whole town would forget feuds and go out and have sports and a picnic and a dance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  She was nearly as strong as I, and uncannily clever at all boys' sports.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
5  To all these sports and pursuits, those of the enemy who watched the besieged, and the besieged themselves, were, however, merely the idle though sympathizing spectators.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  The boys had resumed their sports in the clearing, and were enacting a mimic chase to the post among themselves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
8  The boys deserted their sports, and walking fearlessly among their fathers, looked up in curious admiration, as they heard the brief exclamations of wonder they so freely expressed the temerity of their hated foe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
9  I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes--there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
11  He soon became known to every boy in the school; and though he never took an active part in any game but kite-flying, was as deeply interested in all our sports as anyone among us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
12  Low sports, such as prize-fighting or Spanish bull-fights, are a sign of barbarity.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
13  I admit that manly sports do not.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
14  Then Euryalus reviled him outright and said, "I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports that men generally delight in."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
15  It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  Competitive sports encourage children to work together as a team.
17  A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports.
18  You can enjoy all the water sports, or simply lie on the beach.
19  All over the world men and women, boys and girls enjoy sports.
20  She loves all sports, especially swimming.
21  You need good hand - eye coordination to play racket sports.
22  The former footballer will front a new television sports quiz.
23  The committee put forward broad recommendations for the improvement of safety at sports grounds.
24  Generally speaking, boys like active sports more than girls do.
25  The stands at the sports ground rake steeply.
26  Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.
27  The sports meeting was held in the stadium.
28  Seth was the proud owner of a new sports car.
29  He was now the proud owner of a bright red sports car.
30  All our sports shoes are designed for comfort and performance.