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Example sentences for "make sport"

  • The champions saw Ivan Tsarevich and straightway began to make sport of him: "Oh, country clown, is such a beauty for thee?

  • They began to ask Peerless Beauty in marriage, and to make sport of Ivan Tsarevich: "Oh, thou country clown, is such a beauty for thee?

  • Impose upon, make sport of, make fun of, make merry with.

  • They had married to make sport of their husbands; they all had a past, they were worse than the women who walked the streets at night.

  • Besides, he was old and the young painters who came to Rome did not know him; they were poor fellows who looked on him as a clown, and never laid aside their seriousness except to make sport of him.

  • It is my idea that if this professor made sport of you, what you ought to do is to make sport of him!

  • Why should I make sport of you, darling, since you are lovelier than ever!

  • They have him here now, to make sport of him with the rest.

  • The Ephesians gathered together to make sport--to make sport of Saronia the beautiful, my love!

  • Defy those principalities and powers which torture thee, laugh at thee, shatter thy hopes, damn thee for the next life, before thou puttest aside the vile clay of this, make sport of thy soul ere half the circle of thy days is spent!

  • She alone was permitted to have the honour of granting Antony the rites of burial, and was furnished with every thing becoming his dignity to receive, or her love to offer.

  • Water, not land, is the primary value in the Western country, and its conservation and use to irrigate land is the first condition of prosperity.

  • It is just as necessary for the people to know what is being done to help them as to know what is being done to hurt them.

  • To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

  • One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

  • To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

  • To make game of, to make sport of; to mock.

  • Defn: To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

  • Defn: To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

  • To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make sport" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common things; enter the; full song; lead them; make anything; make camp; make discoveries; make great; make inquiry; make like; make mention; make mistakes; make more; make music; make ourselves; make preparations; make report; make sail; make slaves; make some; make something; make themselves; make this; make war; make what; only once