How To Use Sportiveness In A Sentence

For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. Laws
The lovely innocents proceeding to the destined sacrifice added not a little to the hilarity of the scene; they approached the plain full of sportiveness, some coursing butterflies, others culling flowers, or picking up the shining little pebbles that attracted their notice. The History of the Caliph Vathek
One other curious piece of sportiveness in his dealings with the Voltaire
Certainly the enjoyment in the fifty-eight poems lies, I think, in their sportiveness.
He must have been sportive and wanton in his inventions — yet that cruel, that savage sportiveness has saved you from the sudden violence to which he has had recourse in the violation of others, of names and families not contemptible. Clarissa Harlowe

At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy. Chapter 16
The car's excellent handling and sportiveness make it a point of reference in its category.
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
As holidays go, this celebration of sport and sportiveness is as good as it gets.
At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen with all the sportiveness of infancy. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Enjoy the best tennis in the world from the first row, enjoying and living a show that goes beyond sportiveness.
The active suspension is an important part of making the usual trade-off between comfort and sportiveness less of an issue.
And when I think that it is true — when I see that the sportiveness and kitten-like gambols of girlhood should be over, and generally are over, when a girl has given her troth, it becomes a matter of regret to me that the feminine world should be in such a hurry after matrimony. The Small House at Allington