ENTERTAINMENT in a Sentence

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For ENTERTAINMENT, below is one of 239 sentences:
Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTERTAINMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
entertainment
 n.  amusement; fun
Classic Sentence: (204 in 14 pages)
1  The County had been devoid of any entertainment or social life ever since the Troop had gone away to war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Lily, however, had been deplorably careless in noting the particulars of the entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
3  The Welly Brys, after much debate, and anxious counsel with their newly acquired friends, had decided on the bold move of giving a general entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  But this characteristic command seemed to reestablish their former relations; and Lily smiled at the thought that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys' entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7  They proved to be few and unimportant, but among them he found, with a strange commotion of the heart, the note he had written her the day after the Brys' entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
8  They seemed to feel the same pride in her, and to look to her for stories and entertainment as we used to do.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
9  The parrot fortunately offered no further interruption to the entertainment, the whole venom of his nature apparently having been cherished up and hurled against the twins in that one impetuous outburst.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  They thought it amusing at first, but the occupation soon lost its attractiveness when they discovered that it was not a game arranged especially for their entertainment.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
11  She must have betrayed in her look some degree of interest or entertainment.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
12  The guests are expected to pay for this entertainment; if they be proper guests, they will see that there is a neat sum left over for the bride and bridegroom to start life upon.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  Most fearful they are to contemplate, the expenses of this entertainment.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  Had Hawkeye been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the entertainment a little in pique.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  He entertained us in his own inimitable style.
17  The hunter entertained us with venison which was very delicious.
18  They entertain on a large scale.
19  The General refused to entertain the possibility of defeat.
20  The television program is designed to educate and not merely to entertain.
21  They always entertain their guests in grand style.
22  A teacher should entertain as well as teach.
23  The television programme is designed to educate and not merely to entertain.
24  Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
25  I suppose I should now entertain none but fatherly feelings for you: do you think so? Come--tell me.
26  Children's TV nowadays is much more entertaining.
27  It's fairly entertaining as films go, but I wouldn't describe it as unmissable.
28  The job involves a lot of entertaining.
29  This is actually a very entertaining book putting over serious health messages.
30  To generate new money the sport needs to be more entertaining.