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
On ten Sundays in succession he had been forced to attend Church Parade, what time the Major and Rosamund were disporting themselves on the golf links.
From The Sunny Side by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
In its brightness a number of rabbits were disporting themselves, jumping about as if in some queer dance, pausing occasionally to stare into the center of that fascinating glow.
From Followers of the Trail by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
My locks, of course, were disporting themselves as they pleased, and I am sure that I began there and then to strew the bottom of our ship with hairpins.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
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
