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How to use sporty in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Sporty means fond of sports. Example: “He's perfect for me, as he's both studious and sporty.”

Examples of sporty by meaning

adjectiveFond of sports.

  • He's perfect for me, as he's both studious and sporty.
  • Sporty people all over the world spend their lives training to compete in competitions such as the Olympic Games.2020, Shalini Vallepur, I Can Be Sporty: Amazing Athletes Who Pushed the Boundaries, page 4

adjectiveSuitable for use in sport.

  • a sporty tennis outfit

adjectiveStylish with a fun, bold, vibrant quality or appearance.

  • My new car looks sporty but is actually very practical.
  • His hat sat at a rakish angle giving him a sporty appearance.2007, B. Lorraine Jones, Charles Augustus: A Boy's Will to Survive, page 29
  • Your palette contains sporty colors, dressy colors, neutrals, basics, and bright accent colors.2011, Carole Jackson, Color Me Beautiful, page 38

More sentences with sporty

  • This is the sporty jacket for today's modern man on the go.From the entry today
  • Godfrey's portly yet buttockless and is in neutrals too, with sporty Royal Elastic-type shoes.2010, Stephanie Clifford-Smith, Kink: A Straight Girl's Investigation. From the entry buttockless
  • The G35's exterior styling . . . looks suitably sporty but lacks the Caddy's curb appeal.2009 October 1, Douglas Kott, “2008 Cadillac CTS vs. 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport”, in Road and Track, retrieved 31 Jul 2011. From the entry curb appeal
  • I'm talking about a sporty boat that can be legally trailered.1990 July, Joe Skorupa, “Pocket Cruisers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 50. From the entry miniyacht
  • The 11th. hole on the course is probably the sportiest hole in golfdom.1929, Charles Townsend Copeland, Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, page 318. From the entry golfdom
  • Of course, the athleisure category—infusing seemingly sporty clothes with a wear-it-all-day premise—has been booming for a while now.2020 June 22, Flora Tsapovsky, “Once a WFH Staple, Athleisure Gets Down to Business”, in Wired. From the entry athleisure
  • The skort is typically short (often very short) and is designed for sporty activities such as tennis and hiking.2011, Anna Lefler, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, page 179. From the entry skort
  • To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful.2010, Rob Sachs, What Would Rob Do?, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry rachel
  • The new stuff merges ski and snowboard looks, but it's more sporty and happy, not as rebellious as boardwear.1999 December, Skiing, page 42. From the entry boardwear
  • TAKE a schoolful of sporty children, a playgroundful of parents and fieldful of bounces - castle and trampoline variety.1993 July 15, “Good Sports”, in Rugeley Mercury, volume 128, number 648, page 21. From the entry playgroundful
  • In front of him was a sporty fellow in an acey-deucey fedora and a suit with shoulders at least three feet across.1991, Steve Stern, Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground, page 60. From the entry acey-deucey

Meaning of sporty

  1. adjective Fond of sports.
  2. adjective Suitable for use in sport.
  3. adjective Stylish with a fun, bold, vibrant quality or appearance.

Full definition of sporty

Questions about sporty in a sentence

How do you use sporty in a sentence?
Sporty is used as an adjective. For example: “He's perfect for me, as he's both studious and sporty.”
What is a short sentence with sporty?
“a sporty tennis outfit”
What does sporty mean?
Sporty means fond of sports.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sporty (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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