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
"And so," answered Nightingale, "according to your doctrine, one must not amuse oneself by any common gallantries with women, for fear they should fall in love with us."
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
It gave rather gay, fleeting fantasies—a sense of delicate mental power as though thought were a sort of glittering toy, to amuse oneself with.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
One seemed to have nothing to do but to amuse oneself then, and it was so easy to amuse oneself that one never grew tired of doing so.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
“Oh, this is only a place to amuse oneself in!” said Vane.
From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by A.W. Cooper
