entertain
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“How can you advance into leadership roles and entertain clients unless you know how to host, how to read a wine list and how to order?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Outside, the grounds of the home display different sculptures, while a sizable pool area provides the perfect place for the family to entertain guests, or relax in the Atlanta sunshine.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The signs are there that this team will entertain but as Iraola pointed out in Chicago, it will take time.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Still, with that perspective, he wasn’t going to entertain any talk about the Dodgers ruining baseball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Maybe they’d have enough music to entertain them while they drove fourteen or fifteen miles home and unharnessed in the dark and fed the stock and milked.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
The formula still entertains, sure, but its bite has been blunted by the weight of copycats that came after the first installment.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
The paved terrace, for example, is an imitation of a similar space in Palm Beach where the president routinely entertains.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
It's 2001 and nine-year-old Jonno Davies is standing in the crowd as Robbie Williams entertains 65,000 people at the Milton Keynes Bowl.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Proof, if any were needed, that people prefer to be entertained rather than preached to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He even looked into playing arena football and entertained the idea of playing for the Los Angeles Avengers, but that thought only lasted a day or so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The oil chief is an eloquent speaker whose TV appearances have entertained the president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mexico returned from halftime with great momentum in front of a crowd that had been entertained at halftime by the Mexican band Maná.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Her mother called it the ladies’ parlor, because it was where she entertained her friends, where they laughed and hailed each other by their nicknames—Art!
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hamed was one of British boxing's biggest stars during the 1990s, combining an entertaining fighting style with elaborate ring entrances and a larger-than-life character.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
To them, Owens is tenacious, entertaining, earnest and sincere — a voice they trust in a dishonest and chaotic media landscape.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Watching Mr. Statham fight is slightly entertaining, but there has to be more than that to constitute a movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In a sweeping, very entertaining investigative account, Dan Kois delves into the history and benefits of bar soap and why it’s worth fighting for.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
He filled a pot-bellied stove from a small coal scuttle, for all the world a kindly German householder entertaining a guest.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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