Example collocations logo

Sportsman in sentence

31 examples of Sportsman in a sentence

He felt like that would go against his code as a sportsman.
He was a learned scholar and musician who generously patronized the arts, as well as being an imposing warrior and sportsman.
Although I lived in Australia in 1975, I moved overseas not long after, fed up with constant industrial unrest, the general worship of mediocrity - unless one is a sportsman!
It grabs human destiny by a love story of a young sportsman and a student girl who met first at the start of the revolution.
Each of these social categories – for example, being a Christian, a father, a mason, a neighbor, or a sportsman – has an associated norm or ideal.
But neither his tweets, his image as a sportsman, his government’s televised ministerial meetings, nor the articles in which he lashes out at the opposition have been able to stem a growing perception that his illness has launched an uncertain transition.
'A most splendid fellow and a passionate sportsman,' as Oblonsky said when he introduced him.
Vasenka had been ignorant that the stylishness of a real sportsman consists in being dressed in rags but having one's shooting implements of the very best quality.
It was always painful for Kitty to part from her husband for two days; but seeing his animated figure, which seemed particularly large and powerful in high shooting boots and white blouse, and the radiant exhilaration of the sportsman in him, incomprehensible to her, she forgot her own pain in his gladness and parted from him cheerfully.
Besides, he experienced that feeling of concentrated excitement which every sportsman knows when approaching the scene of action.
A sportsman's jealousy was beginning to torment Levin.
Oblonsky evidently wanted the same thing, and on his face Levin noticed the preoccupation, which every true sportsman feels before the shooting begins, and also a little good-natured cunning, characteristic of him.
The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman.
Sportsman, sir ?'abruptly turning to Mr. Winkle.
Then there emerged from the house, Mrs. Pott, who would have looked very like Apollo if she hadn't had a gown on, conducted by Mr. Winkle, who, in his light-red coat could not possibly have been mistaken for anything but a sportsman, if he had not borne an equal resemblance to a general postman.
There was a rusty spur on the solitary boot, which he occasionally jerked into the empty air, at the same time giving the boot a smart blow, and muttering some of the sounds by which a sportsman encourages his horse.
Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother.
In showing kindness to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman, though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a residence within his own manor.
Sometimes it was as a sportsman that his reputation reached us, as when his Meteor beat the Duke of Queensberry's Egham, at Newmarket, or when he brought Jim Belcher up from Bristol, and sprang him upon the London fancy.
"A good sportsman, nephew," said he."A bold rider, the best pistol-shot in England, but . . .
"I think, Harrison, that you are too good a sportsman to prevent your nephew from showing whether he takes after his uncle."
The landlord, an old sportsman and ringsider, ran out to greet so well-known a Corinthian as Sir Charles Tregellis.
And now I had a view of all those points of etiquette and curious survivals of custom which are so recent, that we have not yet appreciated that they may some day be as interesting to the social historian as they then were to the sportsman.
She whom I had known as the play actress of Anstey Cross became the dowager Lady Avon; whilst Boy Jim, as dear to me now as when we harried birds' nests and tickled trout together, is now Lord Avon, beloved by his tenantry, the finest sportsman and the most popular man from the north of the Weald to the Channel.
He would not draw back from any task: a determined sportsman, he would make a business of what till then had only been a pleasure to him.
Now, as Harding was not a sportsman, and as, on the other side, Herbert was talking chemistry and natural philosophy, numbers of kangaroos, capybaras, and agouties came within range, which, however, escaped the lad's gun; the consequence was that the day was already advanced, and the two hunters were in danger of having made a useless excursion, when Herbert, stopping, and uttering a cry of joy, exclaimed,--"Oh, Captain Harding, do you see that tree?" and he pointed to a shrub, rather than a tree, for it was composed of a single stem, covered with a scaly bark, which bore leaves streaked with little parallel veins.
Then turning to Levin, 'Constantine Dmitrich Levin, an active member of the Zemstvo, one of the new sort – a gymnast who lifts a hundredweight and a half with one hand, a cattle-breeder, a sportsman, – my friend, and a brother of Sergius Ivanich Koznyshev.'
They help me first, with slight condescension, as if I were not one of themselves, not a sportsman, not a peasant.
And such was exactly the helpmate that the sportsman and peasant which Admiral Meaulnes was might have wished for previous to his mysterious adventure.
He was, so far as I could distinguish, a great bearded fellow dressed like a sportsman or a poacher.