AMUSING in a Sentence

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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 AMUSING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
amusing
 a.  arousing or provoking laughter
 a.  providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Fenitchka laughed again, and even clapped her hands, so amusing Bazarov's request seemed to her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  I was simply amusing myself with the petitioners and with the officer, and in reality I never could become spiteful.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
4  I like to kill the weary hours reading something amusing, you know.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
5  Evidently in the back rooms, from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had been more amusing than the drawing-room talk of society scandals, the weather, and Countess Apraksina.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
6  Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
7  Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of things that had never occurred.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
8  Vera was a handsome girl of twenty; Sonya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening flower; Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly amusing, now girlishly enchanting.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
9  His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
10  This melancholy, which did not prevent her amusing herself, did not hinder the young people who came to her house from passing the time pleasantly.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V
11  And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of his health, and to reminiscences of the gay and amusing times he had spent with him in Naples.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
12  He had been awake for some time, listening to what was being said, and evidently found nothing entertaining or amusing in what was going on.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
13  At first she found it amusing to give away dresses and ribbons to the maids, but when that was done and what was left had still to be packed, she found it dull.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIII
14  His eyes shone and his mustache twitched as if he were smiling to himself at some amusing thought.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
15  His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  It's too wet for the children to play out today; they'll have to amuse themselves indoors.
17  I've been using this anecdote to amuse my civilian friends for years!
18  He watched the kids throw water around with amused tolerance.
19  Ellen seemed amused by the whole situation.
20  Board games are a good standby to keep the children amused if the weather is bad.
21  It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused.
22  His jokes amused the crying child.
23  We were amused at his funny movements in doing morning exercises.
24  It amused him to think that they were probably talking about him at that very moment.
25  His jokes amused the whole table.
26  Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
27  Some audience members were amused by the irreverence of the comedian's jokes about the Pope; others felt offended by his lack of respect for their faith.
28  This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia's most venerated public place, and traditionalists were not amused.
29  The film amusingly pokes fun at the media.
30  People had very few amusements to choose from.