disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
had been disporting
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past perfect progressiveof disport.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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As the night went I heard the scullions who had been disporting themselves in the town return one by one, and the bolting and barring of doors.
From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan
He had not been there long when a Gnat that had been disporting itself in the air pitched upon one of his horns.
From The Talking Beasts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The German flying machines had been disporting themselves here or there.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
