game
noun
an amusement or pastime.
gameless
-
a word derived from
game.
Example Sentences
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So gameless, but with cheeks and forehead tinged By breeze and sunshine, I returned to books.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon
Two weeks' chase over utterly gameless ground probably suggested to Drips that even an animal will lead off on a false scent to draw the enemy away from the true trail.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
He is not king of the African forest; he fears the Njego or leopard and, as lions will not live in these wet, wooded, and gameless lands, he can hardly have expelled King Leo.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Shall we hand down to our children a gameless continent, with all the shame that such a calamity will entail?
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
If you want a gameless state, let the destruction go on as it now is going, with 16,000 licensed gunners in the field each year, and you will surely have it, right soon.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
