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• None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian.From the entry cross someone's path
• He felt that professional sportsmen were overpaid and overregarded.From the entry overregarded
• Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond.1983 [1898], J. Arthur Gibbs, “The Language of the Cotswolds, with Some Ancient Songs and Legends”, in A Cotswold Village, or Country Life…. From the entry sog
• The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry cowpuncher
• Lewthwaite . . . was also regarded as ultra-reliable in defence, as well as a consummate sportsman, often referred to as "Gentleman Jim".2007 January 14, Dave Hadfield, “Obituaries: Jim Lewthwaite, Rugby league record-breaker”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 16 Jan 2016. From the entry Gentleman Jim
• The most famous sportsman rumoured to come for a round here was basketballer Michael Jordan, who flew in just for the midnight golf experience.2004, Paul Harding, Iceland, page 190. From the entry basketballer
• Deep-set and steady, with eyelashes that many a woman had envied, they showed the man for what he was—a sportsman and a gentleman.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond. From the entry unbeatable
• In North America small aero-sleds are used by sportsmen, game wardens, and others, but there is little interest in using them for serious oversnow transport purposes.1963, Malcolm Mellor, Oversnow Transport, page 48. From the entry oversnow
• Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves. From the entry divers
• They are for the most part common, ordinary, every-day hunters and sportsmen, trying to do our work with our money, for the things that we want.1915, In the Open Publishing Company (publisher), “Wild Life Protectors”, in In the Open, A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Outdoor Life…. From the entry miracle worker
• He looked, indeed, a curious hybrid, a sportsman from his crown to the bottom of his jacket, and a man of the world about the legs.1907, Edgar Jepson, The Four Philanthropists. From the entry make nothing of
• A keen sportsman, he had draped half the walls of his palace with tiger skins, while several more skins were laid end to end to lead up to the throne.2011, Vithal Rajan, Holmes of the Raj, →ISBN. From the entry lead up to
• I was a keen sportsman of a sort, an old-experienced fisher, a fair shot with gun and rifle, and in my hillcraft I might well stand comparison with most men.1917, John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold. From the entry hillcraft

Meaning of sportsman

1. noun A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
2. noun A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
3. noun A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).

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How do you use sportsman in a sentence?

Sportsman is used as a noun. For example: “None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian.”

What is a short sentence with sportsman?

“He felt that professional sportsmen were overpaid and overregarded.”

What does sportsman mean?

Sportsman means a man who engages in sports; an athlete.