amuse oneself
Example Sentences
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"There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh, this is only a place to amuse oneself in!” said Vane.
From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by Cooper, A.W.
"And so," answered Nightingale, "according to your doctrine, one must not amuse oneself by any common gallantries with women, for fear they should fall in love with us."
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
But books, facts, ideas—all the riddle of this various nature—that one might still amuse oneself with a little, till one's own light went out in the same darkness that had already engulfed mother—husband—child.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Asolare—“to disport in the open air, amuse oneself at random.”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
