Sentence examples for mere sport from inspiring English sources

But Williams' life is far more raw and real than mere sport.

It's present in the writings of the ancient Greeks, for whom athleticism was much more than mere sport.

A mere sport of nature, like a horse that can both win the steeplechase and stamp out the answer to five plus two.

Even though some football games have provoked violence, and in one case even a war, they might have served the positive purpose of containing our more savage impulses by deflecting them onto a mere sport.

Maybe it's a terrible fuss for a supposed grown-up to make about a mere sport, but it was striking to witness a millionaire whose wealth is no consolation when his life has been invested in this game.

Without all that humming, bustling, foul-mouthed, real-life humanity, it might just have been another sports movie – another Gridiron Gang, another Any Given Sunday – instead of a new admission to the Pantheon of Great Sports Movies – for which one needs more than mere sport.

This wasn't mere sports-fan ire; they were mourning their city.

Rangers is more of a Protestant institution than a mere sports club.

Nevertheless, Cunard's predilection for Negro forms went beyond the mere sporting of fashion accessories.

Many, he said, deserve their label as mere sports factories that scant education and a student's overall growth.

But 35 years of hype and television dollars have turned it into something more than a mere sporting event.