disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
was disporting
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past progressiveof disport.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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One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despatches, from the steamship Majestic at sea, said rumors that Annette Kellerman was disporting herself in the swimming pool proved false upon investigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day he shot a huge alligator which was disporting itself in the water some five hundred yards from the shore.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
He had undressed and was disporting himself in nocturnal attire before reposing, when Jonas Lie's well-aimed missile hit him in the stomach and doubled him up with pain.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
I beheld not one ring but two, in each of which the uncommon variety of man was disporting in an entertaining manner.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
