comport
verb (used with object)
to bear or conduct (oneself ); behave.
have comported
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present perfectof comport.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In fact, Yates may have comported herself better than any of the other key players in the Flynn saga.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2020
Further there is absolutely no reason to conclude that Mr. Slater would have comported himself in anything other than a professional manner in the event of a serious emergency.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2010
From early youth my father himself had given my sister and me instruction in dancing, a task which must have comported strangely enough with so stern a man.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
Many a man will say that in all my relations with Carlotta I have comported myself as a fool, and that my marriage is the crowning folly.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Here I may pause to ask any brave man how he would have comported himself in such a crisis.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
