AMUSING in a Sentence
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242 example sentences for AMUSING, such as:
1. He has a fund of amusing jokes.
2. I often amuse myself by reading.
3. I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
4. There was a note of amusement in her voice.
5. Jane couldn't contain her amusement any longer.
2. I often amuse myself by reading.
3. I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
4. There was a note of amusement in her voice.
5. Jane couldn't contain her amusement any longer.
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Meanings and Examples of AMUSING
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amusing
a. arousing or provoking laughter
a. providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.
2 Fenitchka laughed again, and even clapped her hands, so amusing Bazarov's request seemed to her.
3 I was simply amusing myself with the petitioners and with the officer, and in reality I never could become spiteful.
4 I like to kill the weary hours reading something amusing, you know.
5 Evidently in the back rooms, from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had been more amusing than the drawing-room talk of society scandals, the weather, and Countess Apraksina.
6 Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.
7 Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of things that had never occurred.
8 Vera was a handsome girl of twenty; Sonya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening flower; Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly amusing, now girlishly enchanting.
9 His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.
10 This melancholy, which did not prevent her amusing herself, did not hinder the young people who came to her house from passing the time pleasantly.
11 And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of his health, and to reminiscences of the gay and amusing times he had spent with him in Naples.
12 He had been awake for some time, listening to what was being said, and evidently found nothing entertaining or amusing in what was going on.
13 At first she found it amusing to give away dresses and ribbons to the maids, but when that was done and what was left had still to be packed, she found it dull.
14 His eyes shone and his mustache twitched as if he were smiling to himself at some amusing thought.
15 His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
2 He has a fund of amusing jokes.
3 He had a terrific sense of humour and could be very amusing.
4 She keeps a store of amusing stories in her head.
5 The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.
6 Accustomed to the severe lines of contemporary buildings, the architecture students found the flamboyance of baroque architecture amusing.
7 I looked on in amusement as they started to argue.
8 There was a note of amusement in her voice.
9 He stopped and watched with amusement to see the child so absorbed.
10 Jane couldn't contain her amusement any longer.
11 She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
12 The corners of her mouth curved upwards in amusement.
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.