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Example sentences for "amuses"

Lexicographically close words:
amuse; amused; amusedly; amusement; amusements; amusing; amusingly; amusive; amye; amygdalin
  1. The world amuses him, such queer things go on in it; but the part that amuses him most is certain lines of our personal structure.

  2. Go on, it amuses me to listen to your quaint little impromptu.

  3. For my part, I have not the least idea of giving them a cold reception; on the contrary, the meeting amuses me.

  4. It amuses me, that's all it does to me; it amuses me.

  5. So he no longer amuses himself with petty rascalities," thought Chupin, as he surveyed the rooms.

  6. He was the kind of man who finds the nine months of his wife's disability socially irksome, and amuses himself more or less innocently.

  7. He likes to work here," Isabelle explained with pride, "and he amuses John more than most of them.

  8. She amuses her lord, she beguiles him, she whets his appetite and pushes him forth to the morrow's fight, to bring back to her more pelf, to make her greater yet.

  9. Society amuses you, but it does not seduce you.

  10. Molly, with a shiver, rouses it, throws on a fresh log, and amuses herself trying to induce the tardy flames to climb and lick it until Lady Stafford returns.

  11. You can, if it amuses you, throw all the French residents into the sea.

  12. Tell away, if it amuses you," said Gontran.

  13. It is a kind of phalanstery which amuses us, and where mutual liberty is much better guaranteed than in that of the Fourierists.

  14. I hope that Rene amuses himself with his bass, that Cecile works well, and that their little sister always reads her books.

  15. It amuses her and, in the long run, does no harm.

  16. The industry of others amuses him; his chief object is to enjoy life.

  17. Sometimes this amuses me a little, but his earnestness makes me almost feel unhappy at times.

  18. Mrs. Stevens perceives the slight--it amuses her a little.

  19. I am constantly being asked how a Turkish woman amuses herself.

  20. This supreme trust in a benign Fate amuses me.

  21. Nothing amuses me more in a court than to see one calf kissing the tanned skin of another.

  22. Many people imagine that he who amuses them must be lower than they.

  23. Nothing amuses them more that to see the mask pulled from the face of sham.

  24. He said at this date he did not distinctly recollect it and he added: "Probably I said what is true, that I write the sort of stories which at the moment it amuses me to write; I trust to luck that it may also amuse the public.

  25. If the reading of them amuses you, as much as the writing amuses me, we ought both to be fairly well entertained.

  26. But if it amuses you to talk nonsense, I don't see why you shouldn't.

  27. The thing that amuses me is to think that I came to Africa thinking I was going to have a rattling good time, plenty of shooting and practically nothing to do.

  28. You know, he hasn't got any feelings at all--love or hate or anything else; and it simply amuses him beyond anything to arouse feeling in anybody else.

  29. What amuses me is to find that in an affair of this kind the roads have rights and the strikers have rights, but the public has no rights at all.

  30. Why not, if it amuses him and doesn't hurt the girl?

  31. Don't you perceive, sir, that what amuses me is the mistaken estimate you have formed of me, by addressing me on such topics?

  32. The public still amuses itself with giving his regiment new names, 'the Aloobokharas' and Ring-tailed Roarers' are the last I have heard of.

  33. I have been so hard at work the whole day, that I can only find time to say the enemy has made no sortie to-day, but Pandy amuses himself with firing long shots incessantly; all well, however.

  34. The first amuses the senses, and excites ideas of mirth and good-humour; the other, like tragedy, deals in the passions of terror and pity.

  35. The people are so far from being impressed with awe and religious terror by this sort of machinery, that it amuses their imaginations in the most agreeable manner, and keeps them always in good humour.

  36. This young man was not unlike a skilful coachman who holds the reins of four horses, and amuses himself by first exciting his animals and then subduing them.

  37. But a man will always love the woman who amuses him and keeps him happy.

  38. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.

  39. It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of the house.

  40. It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her play.

  41. This greatly amuses them all, and their lord orders him to be brought to his table.

  42. It just interests me, and it amuses me, too.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.