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Example sentences for "sporty"

Lexicographically close words:
sportsman; sportsmanlike; sportsmanship; sportsmen; sportswoman; sporulation; sporules; spose; sposed; sposen
  1. So he told his chum everything from the time of meeting with the sporty students until the sensational retreat of Langridge to his room.

  2. More likely because the dinner isn't going to be sporty enough for him," was the opinion of Dutch.

  3. A sporty senior, whom Dunk knew, and who had more than once been in little troubles that required the services of a legal man, gave them the address of a good one.

  4. Some of the sporty students had seen the two, and made a rush for them.

  5. You're sporty in your way, you tremendous scoundrel!

  6. Colonel, why can't you be as sporty as Henderson and my father?

  7. You wouldn't want to take a girl's savings of years and years to gamble on a sporty cigar proposition with a card-room in the rear.

  8. There's too many sporty crowds loafing around those joints for a fellow like you to stand up under.

  9. I like to play a sporty game--count all my shots, of course--but damn this technical stuff is what I say.

  10. His own possessions made a small heap, but the sporty coat, the false beard, the hat, and the dickey with the wing collar and the red tie made quite a pile.

  11. DuBois drew from the bag a false beard, and a crumpled white dickey topped by a wing collar and a sporty red tie.

  12. When you found the sporty coat, the false beard, and the dickey with the wing collar and the red tie, and the hat in the valise you bought of the porter, did that remind you of anything?

  13. It seems to me that the cops might have dragged in a hundred sporty looking men with red neckties and slouch hats for the inspector’s friends to look over for the purpose of identification.

  14. So they didn’t look for the man in the sporty coat and red tie?

  15. It was a sporty sack coat, the pattern being according to latest Bowery cut, the material coarse, and the markings of the cloth loud in the extreme.

  16. Colleton was quiet and refined in his dress, as you describe it, and it seems to me that a disguise intended for him would naturally partake of the sporty style.

  17. Don’t you suppose there’s more than one false beard, more than one sporty coat, and more than one dickey with wing collars and a red necktie in the world?

  18. With the sporty coat, the beard, and dickey lying on the blanket at his side, Mr. Havens turned to Jimmie with a sly smile.

  19. Maybe we ought to tell him," suggested the sporty student.

  20. Oh, probably Gerhart wanted him to go to some sporty gambling affair.

  21. I thought you said this was a sporty college, Langridge?

  22. Why, Langridge and that sporty new chum of his may slip in and damage it.

  23. Thus it was that there came about no fight between Phil and the "sporty freshman," as he began to be called.

  24. Honest, when I tumbles to the fact that this sporty lookin' female is only Mother fixed up I almost falls out of the swing!

  25. Only Whity always tried to dress the part, in a sporty shepherd plaid, with a checked hat and checked silk socks to match.

  26. Did anybody ever suggest to you that the sporty thing for you to do would be to return to Port Agnew from your involuntary exile and inspire me with some enthusiasm for life?

  27. Nan," he began, "did anybody ever suggest to you that the sporty thing for you to do would be to run away and hide where I could never find you?

  28. Didn't he and I have a heart to heart session when that sporty Russian Prince was over here and got himself pinched at a prizefight?

  29. Besides, he was well along in his sporty career when he discovered this 19-year-old pippin with the trustin' blue eyes and the fascinatin' cheek dimples.

  30. You know how desperate some of them sporty ginks are, who started out so gay only a year or so ago with a private stock in the cellar that they figured would last 'em until the country rose in wrath and undid Mr. Volstead's famous act?

  31. And I spent the rest of the afternoon interviewin' sporty acquaintances over the 'phone, gettin' dope on where to hunt for active capers and poppin' corks.

  32. I looks up to find that it's that sporty neighbor of mine, Nick Barrett, who now and then indulges a fad for an early spin in his stripped roadster.

  33. It seems he'd first gone wanderin' from home a year or so back with a sporty young Englishman who'd hired him as guide and interpreter on a trip into the middle of Burmah.

  34. I noticed, too, when you were home Easter, that you were running to sporty clothes and cigarettes.

  35. There's nothing criminal about either, but I don't hire sporty clerks at all, and the only part of the premises on which cigarette smoking is allowed is the fertilizer factory.

  36. That sporty way of answering, as if he was closing a bet, made me surer than ever that he was not cut out for a butcher.

  37. The two girls walked along the street leading to the Schuyler home, however, and just before they reached the place, a sporty car drew up to the curb and stopped suddenly.

  38. I noticed how sporty the car was, before I saw either of you," said Mrs. Alexander.

  39. So Perk continued to amuse himself in watching the antics of the rival ship, and indulging in all kinds of wild speculations as to what the real object of those two sporty looking occupants might prove to be.

  40. What if that sporty guy I told you about should turn out to be the critter who broke into Scotty's room, and made it a complete wreck?

  41. He's in with a sporty crowd and is beginning to try to act the way they do.

  42. He's flattered at being taken up by these prominent young sporty Freshmen, and he doesn't know how to let well enough alone.

  43. Show us your half-dollar shirts for a starter--an' sporty ones, mind!

  44. With all I've got to do, how can I get up a fine supper for a sporty young gent like Mr. Harry?

  45. And, George, we were having supper at one of those sporty places out on the Island.

  46. The more he thought of it the clearer it grew that the "somebody" should be a bigger man than McDowell, though Sporty meant to get even with him, too, some day.

  47. The disgust of Senator Sporty Jones was expressed with such blasphemous force that the agent was moved to add,-- "You can get anything you want down in the next block.

  48. State Senator Sporty Jones, was not a man to be sneezed at.

  49. It was about fifteen minutes later when Sporty appeared, dripping and mud bespattered, but kept warm by glowing fires of indignation, and vigorously demanded of the attendant the use of the telephone.

  50. Malden County sent in an hysterical report, all instigated by the pungent advices from mad and muddy Senator Sporty Jones--the Governor inclined his ear.

  51. And as any of his circumspect associates could inform you, Senator Sporty Jones was just such a man.

  52. You'd have been manager of the team if some of the mollycoddles around here had had any spunk," went on the sporty freshman.

  53. Don't go away--I like your style," called the sporty lad.

  54. That sporty chap we met him with isn't doing him any good, and Sid will slump, if he isn't careful.

  55. With a yell his cronies sprang to obey the sporty freshman.

  56. With him was an individual whom, had Phil or Tom seen, they would have at once recognized as the sporty youth who had met Sid the day of the island picnic.

  57. The presence of the local police, and their movement toward the spot had resulted in the two sporty looking strangers subsiding.

  58. Yes, and somehow it struck me there was a bit of a sporty look about his appearance!

  59. It's more the clothes he wears that give him the sporty appearance, though, if you say he's one of that betting bunch up at Harmony, he must be a bad lot.

  60. I thought the sporty stranger glanced around a number of times, as though he didn't want any one to overhear a word of what he was saying.

  61. He cudgeled his brain to understand what those strange actions of the third baseman could mean, and who that sporty looking individual, whom he had with his own eyes seen talking so mysteriously to Fred might be.

  62. Why, as to that young tough, he is a winsome, sporty Master Darling.

  63. It can do eighty on fourth speed, and Carwell is sporty enough to slip it into that gear if he needed to.

  64. How she ever came to take up with the sporty Horace, or he with her, was a seven-days' wonder.

  65. I heard it rumored, in more than one quarter, that Viola strongly disapproved of her father's sporty life, and it was said she had stated that she would rather see him dead than disgraced.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sporty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    brave; bravura; braw; casual; daring; dashing; flashing; flashy; flaunting; frilly; frothy; gallant; gay; glittering; informal; jaunty; raffish; rakish; showy; splashy; sporty; wild