sportive

How To Use sportive In A Sentence

• For this disorderly, wandering march, besides the drinking part of it, was accompanied with all the sportiveness and insolence of bacchanals, as much as if the god himself had been there to countenance and lead the procession. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• Whether it's getting to a sportive with your mates or taking the family on holiday, at times we all need to carry our bikes by car.
• The dog, in a sportive mood, careered madly through the field.
• The designs of the sportive product are depending on the people's needs.
• As holidays go, this celebration of sport and sportiveness is as good as it gets.
• Our story begins in Norwich, where an organized cycling event called the Boudicca Sportive took place.
• Some might take a prank sportively, while others might take offence to it.
• But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat — double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore — behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales
• They organised their first sportive in 2012, which received fantastic reviews.
• The profile conveys its sportive nature and combines a high-performance propulsion system with the comfort of a traditional motor yacht.