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
"Men to cross swords with, to amuse oneself with," I mused; "but dogs and horses to live with."
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham
My lord and I are on the intention to make good cheer, and a great expense; -and this country is in possession to furnish wherewithal to amuse oneself.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
But books, facts, ideas—all the riddle of this various nature—that one might still amuse oneself with a little, till one's own light went out in the same darkness that had already engulfed mother—husband—child.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
At Oxford, as I dare say you know, inducements to amuse oneself at the expense of one's education are endless, and encouraged by the authorities.
From Trent's Last Case by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)
