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
To amuse oneself is good, but to work is better still.
From The Double Traitor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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.
Still, one can amuse oneself in London, and I have my home in the country to which I can retire whenever I need a rest.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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 Rives, Amélie
