disport

Example Sentences

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We don’t often wonder about the names of the places where we disport ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022

Other than: may all would-be statesmen disport themselves with the casual larceny of a guy who knows if you don’t let the legal papers physically touch you, then they haven’t been served on you.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2019

While elsewhere in town, van loads of tourists are being carted around to view houses once inhabited by movie stars gone and long forgotten, at San Vicente Bungalows the live ones disport themselves.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2019

They can enjoy the hot dry weather that followed a spring of relentless rain and fog here and disport themselves in public with an apparent ease that seems singularly Italian.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2012

People who do not love to disport in fashionable waters are apt to be severe upon those who spend their faculties upon the coquetries of bathing costume.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.