comport
verb (used with object)
to bear or conduct (oneself ); behave.
was comporting
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past progressiveof comport.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At this point, however, Christian's attention was absorbed by Dido, who was comporting herself with precocious zeal, and, an instant after, the dispute was ended by the shriek with which she proclaimed her success.
From Mount Music by Martin Ross
She was a schooner of the common two-masted Pacific type, but she was comporting herself in a manner uncommon on the Pacific, or any other ocean.
From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White
All this time the Rose of Sharon was comporting herself very quietly, and though he knew it not, a passionate love was growing up in her heart towards Grenville.
From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Lawrence Fletcher
