disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
is disporting
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present progressiveof disport (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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My heroine is disporting herself at a ball 'glittering from head to foot with large diamonds of the first water.'
From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
I should have been quite comfortable if I could have changed with the other one, but Bessie Talleyrand is disporting herself in it.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
In former times the children used to amuse themselves by hopping on one foot, knitting their eyebrows, and saying: ‘It will rain, because the shang yang is disporting himself.’
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
