amuse
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“If Ford wants to amuse himself, all right,” rival auto maker Joseph J. Cole said on the Five-Dollar Day.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
A steal at $28 for three courses, diners saddle up to the counter, reminiscent of a chef’s table, for a French and Japanese-inspired amuse bouche with a main dessert, followed by petit fours.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
The area also symbolizes an inevitable truth about London: Without the thronging masses of tourists, and the attractions designed to amuse them, the city might disintegrate completely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
“No, I came to amuse you. Shall I read aloud?” and Jo looked affectionately toward some inviting books near by.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
My husband’s explosive commentary sometimes amuses me and sometimes wears me down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Reminiscent of an idyllic village on the Mediterranean, with pops of vintage California, this colorful little beach town on the northeast shore of Monterey Bay amuses him every time he swings by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
“That amuses us to no end, because it’s like, all we ever do is work together.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Lubek makes Max mad, which amuses Mrs. Bessermann.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Journalists seemed amused by a shortage of golf equipment for executives who wanted to hit the links at the local country club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Matt Zingler, one of the co-founders of Rolling Loud, was amused when Garelick told him about the slippery moment while first pitching the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"We can't even fill the coffee cups to the brim or they spill," his son Linus, 19, added with an air of amused exasperation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Maxidel was not amused and insisted on the validity of previous agreements.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Marlie exclaimed in amused exasperation, her own clothes clutched in her arms.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Playing jokes and pranks, it needs to be amusing and not belittling, obviously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
If someone’s doing a pretty good impression of you, I think that’s kind of amusing, but he didn’t know who I was.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
That doesn't mean that comedy should suffer, with Seale saying that every time a scene could deliver a "killer gag", instead it was just "gently amusing".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
It’s amusing to me that Haim’s signature walk was an inadvertent invention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Flatnose thought it greatly amusing to let Dustfinger get just close enough to the gas-soaked books to touch the top volumes with his fingers.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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