amusement
Example Sentences
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"It feels like every aspect of your life behind closed doors is being displayed to the world for amusement, entertainment and money."
From Barron's
Then came Dollywood, an amusement park so wildly successful that it became the economic engine of East Tennessee.
From Salon
For more than two years our little man provided unending amusement.
Williams’ shift from prostrate grief to helpless amusement hints at hidden dimensions of a character who will always be a couple of steps ahead of the men trying to control her.
From Los Angeles Times
One diarist, Samuel Bamford, gave up a warehouse job to become a weaver and wrote that the change gave him leisure time to enjoy “country amusements with the other young fellows.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
