Sentence examples for disport from inspiring English sources
"disport" is a correct word used in written English
It means to frolic or amuse oneself in a playful way. Example sentence: The children disported themselves in the park by playing tag and having a picnic.
verb
To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol
We would sit down, and think which way Next to disport us in love's Fray.
One German writer, Günter Grass, wrote a novel, "Headbirths", in 1982, about Harm and Dörte Peters, "a model couple" who disport themselves on the beaches of Asia rather than invest time and trouble in bringing up a baby.
Britain is moving away from puritanical America and closer to continental Europe, where citizens disport themselves naked untroubled by censorious officials".It's a total breakthrough," says Conrad Schmidt, the Canadian founder of the nude bicycling movement.
"Saudi has hundreds of potential Sharm el-Sheikhs," says John Sfakianakis of MASIC, an investment company in Riyadh, the capital, referring to the Egyptian resort on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula where scantily clad Russians and Swedes disport themselves on the beaches and in the bars.
It is surrounded by manicured gardens and extensive grounds in which hundreds of exquisitely groomed camels disport themselves.
Software engineers in Bangalore disport themselves on pristine campuses, fitted out with state-of-the-art gymnasiums.
But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
Young Alexander Pushkin disports himself in the city's brothels, scandalising society first with his impromptu dinner-party versifying and then with a too-public affair with Lise Vorontsov, wife of the governor.
WHEN he woke up in Lilliput, bound by a lattice of slender ligatures, to find dozens of tiny men disporting themselves on his chest, Lemuel Gulliver let out a roar "so loud that they all ran back in fright".
Even then, the famous Letter Scene is dispatched by one of the Tatyanas waving a long black feather as she disports herself up the tree.
"They don't complain in their early days when they are disporting themselves on sports cars".
