amuse

“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

"Politics was all around me," ap Iorwerth told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, recalling how, as a toddler, he would amuse himself by piling up Plaid Cymru leaflets.

From BBC ● May 8, 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

This may amuse you as they wind around your legs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

“If he would be so good as to read to them, it would be a kindness indeed! It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith’s.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

“It’s just stuff that amuses us, as opposed to some larger effort to be disruptive.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

An anecdote in which Felton draws Alan Rickman’s ire by trampling on his flowing robes amuses, as does the disarming thought of the Snape actor lining up for lunch on set.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022

It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

"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

The pair feared they would get in trouble, but race security was more amused than angry, they recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

As his star rose, he attracted amused attention with his Manhattan penthouse and Palm Beach compound, both outfitted to the gills in golden decor.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander apparently isn’t amused by a new board game that pokes fun at the Oklahoma City Thunder star’s reputation for garnering foul calls at the hint of contact by an opposing player.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Markus shares an amused glance with his fellow policeman.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

But my gaydar was also going off big-time around Dorothy and Marshall, news they found amusing when I told them recently.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 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

Elmosnino is an amusing villain, making his most self-serving machinations sound reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Among these is Abe Burrows, played with amusing wit and oiliness by the terrific David Krumholtz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Within days, or even hours, it would have become an amusing memory to be wheeled out on family occasions: the night the twins ran away.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan