is disporting
- present progressive of disport (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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 Waddington, Mary King