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

At least, she felt that she had comported herself well with the rhyme, and settled back into her seat with a feeling of thankfulness.

From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Hill, Grace Brooks

Since then he had comported himself as a kind of uncrowned king who, for the rest of his days, expects the whole world to be at his feet.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann