disports
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present tense formof disport (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
disportverb (used with object)to divert or amuse (oneself ).
Example Sentences
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The fastest man on the planet disports himself like a gentleman amateur.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2012
They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the current picture he is wrecked on a cannibal island, and disports himself amidst the cannibal cancan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An inhabitant of the household disports in the portable bathtub while his mate fries a fish over the gas jet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The whimsical Till disports himself "after the old form of rondeau," and the folly of Don Quixote is told in "ten variations on a chivalrous theme, with an introduction and finale."
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock