amuse

"You stay in your room playing the clarinet or writing a poem - there's a certain virtue to being a little bit bored sometimes, and just having to amuse yourself."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The refreshing sight of the women teaming up against Falstaff never fails to amuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

“If Ford wants to amuse himself, all right,” rival auto maker Joseph J. Cole said on the Five-Dollar Day.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

He seldom went near his brother’s cabin, which was only a half-mile away, and he made no move to attract or amuse the children.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Kit doesn’t know much about her father, who died just after she was born, and the mythologizing of her birth amuses her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Reminiscent of an idyllic village on the Mediterranean, with pops of vintage California, this colorful little beach town on the northeast shore of Monterey Bay amuses him every time he swings by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

He repeats the words on his shirt tag in different accents at one point, which amuses.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022

Remarkably, her pugnacious attitude amuses the princess, who grows to rely on the young “bush girl” for her refreshing candor.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

“I’m sure that amuses you,” I say to her, “but she’s gone now, so it doesn’t matter, does it?”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

"We can't even fill the coffee cups to the brim or they spill," his son Linus, 19, added with an air of amused exasperation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The pair feared they would get in trouble, but race security was more amused than angry, they recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Sean said his girlfriend has tried to reason with him on some of his more unusual ideas, but on this occasion she was amused to go along with the idea.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Hardin is more amused than annoyed, particularly given the origin of the FTD Burger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

We were not at all amused to hear that scoundrels were attempting to make a profit off the pauper’s food line tickets.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

As amusing as it is, “Marble Hall Murders” doesn’t improve on its predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Marcona almonds are lovely if you want an amusing high-low dialogue with the potato chips that appear later, though any salted roasted almond will do.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

If someone’s doing a pretty good impression of you, I think that’s kind of amusing, but he didn’t know who I was.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

Elmosnino is an amusing villain, making his most self-serving machinations sound reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Her classmates found this most amusing, for they whispered among themselves, then orchestrated a frenzy of waves for all to see.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord