entertain oneself
Example Sentences
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I do feel for the neighbor, but having managed long stretches of solitude in my own childhood, I can’t endorse the idea that having to entertain oneself is a uniformly terrible thing.
From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022
“They take so long, and there are too many other ways to entertain oneself today,” he said.
From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2020
Some examples: communication between parent and child, the capacity to entertain oneself, the ability to express ideas logically and feelings sensitively.
From Time Magazine Archive
For to my mind the inside of a book is to entertain oneself with the forced product of another man's brain.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
