entertain

Example Sentences

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As well as entertaining, as well as insightful and impactful.”

From Los Angeles Times

Oscars host Conan O’Brien said his job will be about balancing ‘entertaining people and also acknowledging some of the realities’ of the time.

From Los Angeles Times

“My job is to always try and hit this very, very thin line between entertaining people and also acknowledging some of the realities,” O’Brien said during a Wednesday news conference with the Oscars creative team.

From Los Angeles Times

“It does take you having to wave the flag of, ‘Hey, this is a serious movie,’ and some want to be entertained, and quickly,” Chalamet began.

From Salon

I attempt to entertain Teddy with Magna-Tiles and Legos and picture books, but he just sits on the ground, his bottom lip quivering, barely talking or playing.

From Literature