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
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
From those heights of beautiful emotion where he had disported himself lately there could be no gradual lapse into indifference.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by May Sinclair
From time that seemed immemorial, the inhabitants of Kenminster had disported themselves there as if the grounds had been kept up for their sole behoof, and their indignation at the monopoly knew no bounds.
From Magnum Bonum by Charlotte Mary Yonge
