comport
verb (used with object)
to bear or conduct (oneself ); behave.
had comported
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past perfectof comport.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Mets had comported themselves well, but there season was to end in the NLDS.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2015
But the team that had comported every characteristic of human frailty would become the immortals of New England, the ones who reversed the curse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Abraham, who was not old at all but who had comported himself in the manner of an elderly misanthrope since he first learned to sit up.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
It was the way this bird had comported itself towards him that had so taken him.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Notwithstanding her vaunted resolution, and the boldness with which she had comported herself before the familiar, Mistress Nutter now completely gave way, and for awhile abandoned herself to despair.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
