amuse

"Kids can amuse themselves for a bit but you need to be hands on."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

“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

Medtail joins another category of tenants intended to attract visitors known as experiential retail, which has also surged in popularity since the pandemic as people eager to amuse themselves among friends sought out group activities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

As a child my mother had shown a tendency for drawing and mud sculpture and could still amuse us with her speedy recreations of a popular cartoon woodpecker.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

My husband’s explosive commentary sometimes amuses me and sometimes wears me down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

He repeats the words on his shirt tag in different accents at one point, which amuses.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022

Quigley, who auditioned for a job at Medieval Times after struggling to make a smooth transition between London’s West End and New York’s theater scene, also amuses himself by assuming various accents.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

Remarkably, her pugnacious attitude amuses the princess, who grows to rely on the young “bush girl” for her refreshing candor.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

I will not let him know that he amuses me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

An amused Brady interacted with Gómez Mont briefly but informed her, “I’m a one-woman man.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Mbappe talked about being amused by an internet meme of his face photoshopped onto "some guy, think he's a Chinese dictator".

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Although amused by the notion, Sanders made it clear that reporters aren’t going to get a dime from him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

She added it amused her that, out of her whole family, she had only named her cat, Kizzy, who was a "legend of those parts".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

I laughed, and Dad looked at me half amused and half worried, like, Is there something wrong with my daughter?

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

That made reading his writings an amusing parlor game of trying to figure out who leaked, but it also made his reporting biased and unreliable as history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Still, his proximity to anything Rick Owens-related was beyond amusing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Some reporters even find his insults of the press amusing.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

And if you watch TV with subtitles, there’s an amusing moment during the appearance of the quartet known as the Isaacs, who are introduced as the Isleys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It is amusing to waddle like a duck, and I have grown used to it.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood