amuse oneself
Example Sentences
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"There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
“One must amuse oneself, and he is so odd and so very much in earnest.”
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But just to amuse oneself, and to be, besides, in a perpetual hurry over it because there is so much of it and the day can't be made to stretch, must be a sorry business.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
Paul, therefore, admonishes both teachers and hearers not to esteem lightly the doctrine of faith as if it were a toy with which to amuse oneself in idle hours.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Theodore Graebner
One must amuse oneself somehow while the other man is at the table.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various
