Citations:sport

English citations of sport

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge, the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn't have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again.

• 2018, Erin Griffith, Henry the Sexbot Wants to Know All Your Hopes and Dreams, Wired.com (15 May 2018);

  In a nearby room, headless female bodies, sporting impossibly perky breasts, Barbie waists, and spread-eagle legs, hang from chains.