disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
had disported
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past perfectof disport.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It was a classic Coubertin flourish, linking himself forever to the ancients who had disported there millennia before.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2012
It is as though Nature had disported herself in bringing to life an infinite variety and diversity among her perfected children.
From Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Anna Bishop Scofield
She liked him, and had found him more interesting than most of the young men in whose company she had disported herself.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
The poetry in which he had disported himself at college now came to the service of his prose, and the deeper poetic nature, which is the prophetic in every man, awoke in him.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
But Edna often declared that she had thought him a great deal better-looking in the scanty, well-worn, but more graceful garments in which he had disported himself on the sands of Peru.
From The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank Richard Stockton
