AMUSEMENT in a Sentence

Learn AMUSEMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for AMUSEMENT, such as:
1. He has a fund of amusing jokes.
2. I often amuse myself by reading.
3. Scarlett laughed with amusement.
4. His eyes flickered with amusement.
5. I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AMUSEMENT
amusement
 n.  a feeling of delight at being entertained
 n.  an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Her lips mutinous, she looked up into his eyes and saw so much amusement in their dark depths that she burst into laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  His eyes flickered with amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  He spoke the last words with a simple dignity that touched Scarlett, even in her amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  But this amusement quickly passed and a sense of shock took its place in the early days of their marriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Scarlett laughed with amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Behind them came the Yankee captain, his face a study of mingled suspicion and amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  Her green eyes were alert and sparkling again, and she laughed aloud for the first time in weeks when Rhett and Bonnie met her and Wade and Ella at the depot--laughed in annoyance and amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
11  Melanie was almost crying with embarrassment, Ashley was suddenly bleak and withdrawn and Rhett was watching her over his cigar with impersonal amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
12  He had carried his cup to the fireplace, and stood leaning against the chimney-piece and looking down on her with an air of indolent amusement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  Selden glanced at her with amusement: it was impossible, even with her lovely eyes imploring him, to take a sentimental view of her case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  She was taking her way churchward, but at no very quick pace; a fact not lost on one of her observers, who stood in the doorway looking after her with an air of puzzled amusement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  Selden had watched her manoeuvres with lazy amusement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  I looked on in amusement as they started to argue.
2  There was a note of amusement in her voice.
3  He stopped and watched with amusement to see the child so absorbed.
4  Jane couldn't contain her amusement any longer.
5  She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
6  The corners of her mouth curved upwards in amusement.
7  I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
8  He has a fund of amusing jokes.
9  He had a terrific sense of humour and could be very amusing.
10  She keeps a store of amusing stories in her head.
11  The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.
12  Accustomed to the severe lines of contemporary buildings, the architecture students found the flamboyance of baroque architecture amusing.
13  I've brought with me an article from yesterday's paper that I thought might amuse you.
14  Tom makes up stories to amuse his little brother.
15  I often amuse myself by reading.