amusement
Example Sentences
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One diarist, Samuel Bamford, gave up a warehouse job to become a weaver and wrote that the change gave him leisure time to enjoy “country amusements with the other young fellows.”
Behind the hotel where he was waiting for news from the U.S. consul was an amusement park, he said, with roller coasters and other rides.
From New York Times
It comes as a board appointed by Mr DeSantis was preparing to void a development agreement concerning the company's Florida amusement park.
From BBC
“Maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks — someone even said, like, maybe you need another state prison,” he said at an April 17 news conference.
From New York Times
It may have benefited from a quickened pace, or touches of humor, or heightened stakes because — at least in this film — watching Nazis get theirs is a vein of amusement that runs dry.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
