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What does sporting mean?
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Synonyms sporting synonyms
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Topics sporting topics
What do people use sporting to talk about?
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What words refer to a sports event?
Examples sporting examples
How do I use sporting in a sentence?
Simple sentences
An Olympic gold medal is probably the most coveted sporting prize.
I took part in the sporting event.
They sell sporting goods.
Movie subtitles
I'm not much good at sporting events.
Eh? That's not a bit sporting of you, mr.
This is very sporting of you.
I bought this in a sporting goods store.
A world where no nation plots against nation. where no neighbor plots against neighbor. where there is no persecution or hunting down. where everybody gets a square deal and a sporting chance. and where people try to help and not to hinder.
Where's your sporting blood?
Well, I'm so dreadfully stupid about sporting things.
That's very sporting of you.
My interest in whether Laszlo stays or goes is purely a sporting one.
Isn't it sporting to shoot a sitting Field Marshall?
It was from one of them Chicago sporting firms. explaining how to manipulate trick playing cards.
Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been sporting rides.
Always admired the sporting way in which you took to Sibella marrying me and not you.
The young bucks are sporting 'em.
It's mighty sporting of you to let me do this.
My business is selling sporting goods. You?
I do thank you, you know. It's all so sporting.
I daresay I have been a bit thick. but, well, from the way you talked about hunting and all that. I assumed you knew it was a sporting stalk.
A sporting stalk.
Of course. I told you it was a sporting stalk.
And I think the answer is that- that it wouldn't have been sporting, it wouldn't have been playing the game.
Do you expect me to tell you that it was a sporting stalk?
What's the matter, ain't you got no sporting blood in you?
Sporting, quite a swell. Owns a racecourse.
It's rather sporting of your father to back a dark horse.
You can stop all this bluff because I happen to know you've borrowed some plans. that belong to the government, and I think it only sporting to tell you. that a large number of detectives are following you around.
Very well. - That's very sporting of you.
He's her husband, and he ought to have a sporting chance for his happiness, too.
My interest in whether Victor Laszlo stays or goes is purely a sporting one.
You know, no nice dust bins, No sporting interest in finding a tree.
You appeal to my sporting sense.
And if that isn't sporting of me. I can't help that.
Then came the big sporting event.
I'll make you a sporting exciting offer.
You saw the predicament I was in with that body on my hands and you shut your eyes to it in a most sporting fashion, if I say so.
That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets?
News and current affairs
Like those regimes, whether fascist or communist, China's leaders have sought to transform public space and sporting events into visible proof of their fitness and mandate to rule.
But they can contain something darker, more aggressive, too, especially when sporting combat is loaded with historical memory.
An Indian beauty queen, Madhu Sapre, once became an unwitting victim of Indians' sense of national shame at our sporting insignificance.
Nevertheless, the popular hunger for sporting success, and the celebratory outpouring that it evokes, is bound to provoke some disquiet.
If a lot of people are leaving their seats during a sporting event, you might consider it an indication that the event is not exciting.
Likewise, government is vastly inferior to the World Cup as a sporting spectacle, but much political reporting focuses on who played well and who played badly.
As a result, developers, architects, politicians, tycoons, and international sporting officials are now in charge of the beautiful game.
The euphoria of fans whose team wins a major sporting event is ephemeral.
Whatever the outcome, it seems that in the case of the 2002 World Cup the effects of success in a major sporting event will not be ephemeral.
Everyone seems keen to prove that the city's air will be a decisive and debilitating factor for one of the world's most high-profile sporting events.
Sapre's answer might not have been the brightest, but if the judges had any idea of how desperate Indians are for sporting success, they would have understood that she was not expressing such an absurd priority.
For a land with world-class computer scientists, mathematicians, biotech researchers, filmmakers, and novelists, sporting excellence is the last unconquered frontier.
A bill proposed in February would make it a crime to protest a sporting event.
Will holding the world's greatest single sporting event in Africa spark similar interest for the continent's women?
A gold medal signified the sporting abilities and dedication of individual athletes, not the supposed merits of the political system that produced them.
Perhaps the best example of this type of sporting nationalism was not a football game, but the world ice hockey final in 1969, when Czechoslovakia beat the Soviet Union just one year after Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.