are disporting
- present progressive of disport.
Example Sentences
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Having large lungs, and thus being very buoyant, they swim high in the water, and being good swimmers they make, when a number of them are disporting themselves undisturbed, a very beautiful picture.
From Three Boys in the Wild North Land by Laughlin, J. E.
We do not expect to find birds arising from a “flying-fish in the air, whose scales are disporting into feathers.”
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
In its waters fish are disporting; and the Indra-jackal, laying aside his meat, plunges in after one of them.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill
But if any one shall think fit to cavil, because not only wild beasts, but even trees speak, let him remember that we are disporting in fables.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Verily, He hath consented to be sorely abased that ye may attain unto glory, and yet, ye are disporting yourselves in the vale of heedlessness.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
