disport
verb (used with object)
to divert or amuse (oneself ).
were 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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Innumerable flocks of wild fowl were disporting among the reedy islets, and here and there the great black loon was seen diving and dipping, or skimming over the waters.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
There were, however, signs of a tide on the shores, and a number of seals were disporting themselves in the water.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
The beetles were disporting themselves on the desolate hearth, the spiders had woven draperies for the dim dirty windows.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
It was probably a sunny day, and many people of Prague were disporting themselves in the Vltava, as they do to-day.
From From a Terrace in Prague by Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
He lingered long by the swimming tank, in which a number of athletic young fellows were disporting themselves.
From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by J. W. Duffield
