How to Use sporting in a Sentence

sporting

adjective
  • It wasn't very sporting of you to trip him.
  • Watch any broadcast of an NFL game – or most sporting events, for that matter – and many of the ads are geared toward men.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Small apartments are best suited to toy breeds or small members of other non-sporting dogs.
    Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Sports are an ideal form of fitness, as most sporting events range from 45-60 minutes in duration.
    Philly.com, 24 May 2018
  • Their sample sizes are small and, of course, there is no science to connect political and sporting events to weather.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
  • My dream has always been to develop the model, in both an economic and sporting sense, as far as possible.
    SI.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The New York Auto Show joins a growing list of cultural and sporting events around the world that have been canceled or postponed due to the widening global pandemic.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The new investors represent the latest show of support for WinView as the company promotes a different way for fans to play alongside sporting events.
    Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 14 May 2017
  • Alaska sport fishing licenses are available at most sporting goods shops, even many grocery and convenience stores, and online, of course.
    Josh Niva, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2020
  • France has also closed down schools in particularly hard-hit areas of the country and dozens of concerts, and cultural and sporting events have been cancelled or postponed France-wide due to the outbreak.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The center provides a variety of services for rural Fermanagh residents and offers space for social and sporting events.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The event was derided as an anti-sporting spectacle by some critics, yet both Tyson and Jones appeared to handle themselves capably and safely.
    Greg Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The show includes honorees, finalists and winners in more than 20 sports and also will recognize non-sporting excellence in a variety of categories.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The show includes honorees, finalists and winners in more than 20 sports and will also recognize non-sporting excellence in a variety of categories.
    USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Turnbull & Asser was established during a time in Britain's history when the ruling class preoccupied itself with the minutiae of correct dress for social and sporting events.
    Craig Montague, Town & Country, 22 July 2014
  • Chicago is one of the finest restaurant cities on the planet, a city of fantastic neighborhoods and great people and a vibrant cultural and sporting life, including polite wagers on federal indictments.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • Sports programming typically has live viewership of well over 90%, and that is primarily how sporting events are sold to advertisers.
    Joe Flint, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The Coachella music festival was postponed until October, as the outbreak affected plans for cultural and sporting events worldwide.
    Chris Stanford, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Due to the acceleration of cord-cutting, and the unique importance of the 2020 US presidential election, there is no guarantee debates in future years—or any non-sporting event—will be able to generate such a significant viewership on linear TV.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2020

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