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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disport.

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Examples

  • However, she let down her hair about her body by way of shift, and throwing herself into the basin disported herself and dived like a duck and swam up and down, and took water in her mouth, and spurted it all over the Porter, and washed her limbs, and between her breasts, and inside her thighs and all around her navel.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • What we had planned for the summer was a little light gardening followed by mimosas on the patio while the younger kids disported themselves on the swing set and the 13-year-old moped in the hammock.

    The Case Against Summer P.J. O'Rourke 2011

  • Li Faa, from the Chinese angle, was a new woman, a feminist, who rode horseback astride, disported immodestly garbed at Waikiki on the surf-boards, and at more than one luau (feast) had been known to dance the hula with the worst and in excess of the worst, to the scandalous delight of all.

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • When they continued out past the steel diving-stage where a few of the hardiest divers disported, he muttered vexedly under his breath "damned malahinis!"

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers.

    Page 7 2010

  • There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • He lay on his back, and the eyes darted hither and thither, following the flight of the several flies that disported in the gloomy air above him.

    Chapter 20 2010

  • He forgot that she had made life a burden to him, and when she disported herself around him he responded solemnly, striving to be playful and becoming no more than ridiculous.

    The Call of Kind 2010

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