SPORTS in a Sentence

Learn SPORTS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
269 example sentences for SPORTS, such as:
1. I admit that manly sports do not.
2. She is training for the school sports meet.
3. The winter sports bring the jet set from England.
4. Their approach to sports teaching broke the mould.
5. Team sports help to develop a child's social skills.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SPORTS
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)
1  I have been an asthmatic from childhood and was never able to play any sports.
2  After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
3  Their approach to sports teaching broke the mould.
4  She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
5  She is training for the school sports meet.
6  The show was very funny - they were sending up sports commentators.
7  Yeah, one of those sporty cars that looks like a sports car and drives like a sedan.
8  The winter sports bring the jet set from England.
9  She only bought that sports car to show off and prove she could afford one.
10  Apart from his earnings as a football coach, he also owns and runs a chain of sports shops.
11  The company has decided to withdraw from some of its sports sponsorship.
12  People who take part in sports must be in condition.
13  These magazines cover all kinds of popular subjects such as motoring, gardening, photography and sports.
14  In this chapter we define the boundaries of the sports industry and outline the key contributors to its economic importance.
15  Team sports help to develop a child's social skills.