amuse
Example Sentences
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“I could have been at the beach, but it’s fine,” she says, amused, looking out the nearby windows.
From Los Angeles Times
His performance as president has been altogether different, and far less amusing.
From Los Angeles Times
He was similarly amused by stories of people approaching the other filmmaker to tell him, “Oh, Mr. Ford, we just loved ‘Red River.’”
Hanne had not been amused by the frugality that characterized our 18 months in New York, a city then and now where some spending money makes a big difference in the quality of life.
From Barron's
In that, though, “Father Mother Sister Brother” is no doubt true enough to many a family gathering this Christmas—awkward, amusing, a bit dissatisfying, but not a disaster.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
