How to Use comport in a Sentence

comport

verb
  • That doesn't mean exercising them is wise or comports with the rule of law.
    — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • That vision of our cities does not comport with what our cities currently look like.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
  • That’s the right attitude, though her votes did not always comport with her rhetoric.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This does not seem to comport well with a model of expansion from southern refuges.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2012
  • The more time ticked by, the more ridiculous my initial angst over how to comport myself in the bathhouse seemed.
    — Brian Blickenstaff, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2012
  • Almost the way his actions -- just the way he's comported himself.
    — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • And how in the world is the next generation going to comport itself?
    — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
  • History does not tell us how the dog comported himself in the canoe.
    — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 6 May 2017
  • At the very least, this ruling comports with parental desires that their kids attend to their belongings.
    — Cincinnati.com, 26 July 2017
  • How people comport themselves in public life — as in private life — matters a lot.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Nov. 2020
  • That summation might shock both men, who comport themselves as if from separate worlds.
    — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Your stupidity is eclipsed by your hatred for all that does not comport with your narrative.
    — Joseph A. Gambardello, Philly.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Cornyn said the reason was that some of the text in the draft bill did not comport with the agreement between the negotiators.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
  • Sure, Harden didn’t comport himself very well in forcing his way out of Houston.
    — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2021
  • That kind of timeline wouldn’t really comport with its intent to release a report before the end of the year.
    — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The legislative process doesn’t comport with his approach to governing.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Parents whose values don’t comport with that worldview, however, are now on equal footing.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • At a time when world politics are in a disgraceful state, how should a civilized adult comport himself?
    — Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The animals are comporting themselves even more strangely than usual right now.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Rothstein’s work also comports well with some research findings out of Canada.
    — Rachel M. Cohen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Trying to make a nice-looking curve out of the starts and stops of self-driving car adoption does not comport with what will really happen.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But Hoskins comports himself like a player who has played 1,117 major-league games.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • But logic and the cutthroat politics of New York do not always comport.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • The fact that Biden received a small bump would comport with previous studies on the rally-around-the-flag effect.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 13 Mar. 2022
  • This is a flawed and fatal assumption that does not comport with common sense, let alone any amount of academic scrutiny.
    — Jason Torchinsky, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The idea, instead, was to look to the future, all of which comported well with plans already on the ground in Philadelphia.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Rose found that investment advisers appear to be reluctant to change their behavior to comport with the law.
    — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • The texts released late Thursday also appeared to comport with elements of the complaint.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • But first the Rottweiler must learn how to be a fancy show dog, and part of that training involves learning how to comport himself in the show ring.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 24 May 2018
  • Though barely in his 20s, Bench comported himself like a veteran.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018

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