disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
are disporting
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present progressiveof disport.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
The three Rhine-maidens are disporting themselves in the river while they lament the loss of their beautiful treasure.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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 Dean Spruill Fansler
The most charming amoretti are disporting in all directions, flinging themselves from on high in delicious abandon, alternating with lovely groups of the cardinal virtues.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
