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Example sentences for "entertainment"

Lexicographically close words:
entertainer; entertainers; entertaines; entertaining; entertainingly; entertainments; entertains; entertayne; entertayned; entertaynment
  1. By a vote of the church, every programme to be used in any entertainment in The Temple must first be submitted to the Board of Deacons.

  2. There will be about them sufficient entertainment to hold the audience, while at the same time they give positive instruction and spiritual elevation.

  3. Indeed, from the first of September until summer is well started, few weekday nights pass but that some religious service or some entertainment is taking place in The Temple.

  4. But every entertainment to be given is carefully considered.

  5. Our entertainment in Salt Lake City was upon so extensive a scale that I had no more than enough time to prepare my Inter Ocean letters and to send our wheels to the repair shop.

  6. Here we found that the veteran Jack Prince had stirred much enthusiasm in wheeling, and a banquet at the "Pump House" was the first of the chain of entertainment in store.

  7. To this gentleman were the Inter Ocean tourists indebted for maps, guidance and excellent entertainment while in the city.

  8. They remained for an hour or more after we had cleared the table, arranging trips for our entertainment on the next day.

  9. Our comfort and entertainment in Denver were looked after by the "Ramblers.

  10. In a chilling rain we rode into Cedar Rapids, where our entertainment and reception was royal.

  11. On returning from a walk late in the afternoon we heard sounds of merrymaking in the village square, and found the whole population sitting convulsed with laughter at an entertainment provided by their visitors.

  12. At three o'clock one sunny afternoon we were summoned to an entertainment on the square of grass before the Mission-house.

  13. After the usual entertainment in the captain's cabin the king was shown over the ship.

  14. The nobles of Europe, during this period, were generally distinguished for their cordial entertainment of strangers, and their immediate adherents.

  15. Certainly the new arrivals provided Major Bach with all the entertainment he desired.

  16. But the governing reason for the selection of this day was because it offered such a novel entertainment for the gaping German crowds.

  17. The girls of Pleasant Valley will give an entertainment of calisthenic exercises as soon as their middy suits are entirely completed.

  18. The Pleasant Valley News" has already announced this entertainment at the Town Hall.

  19. The Pleasant Valley girls had such an afternoon entertainment and earned five dollars for their school fund.

  20. As I was the only applicant for this necessary of life, the swarthy, undersized young man who served me made kindly efforts at entertainment while "delivering the goods," as he expressed it.

  21. I was left with the card in my hand, finding it to be an advertisement for the Hotel Mary Chilton, a place of entertainment for women alone, in a central and reputable part of New York.

  22. In return for an invitation to the house of a friend, whether the invitation has been accepted or declined, and this call must be made within the week following that during which the entertainment was given.

  23. If she returns from an entertainment at a later hour, and has no escort to supper, she should have that meal sent to her room.

  24. Within the past few years, a species of entertainment of a past generation has been revived in England, and some attempts have been made to introduce it in this country.

  25. He then informs us that we are now upon his domain, and begs us to accept such hospitality as his Castillo will furnish, in return for our entertainment of last night.

  26. But how we were to pay for this entertainment not one of us knew, nor did we greatly care, being made quite reckless by our necessities.

  27. Dawson and I were frequently asked to accompany Moll, and we went twice to this house, which, though nothing at all to look at outside, was very magnificently furnished within, and the entertainment most noble.

  28. I stole the menu of one of his grand dinners, and gave it to old Lord Bristock's cook, a creature that might have made the messes for an emigrant ship, and such a travesty of an entertainment never was seen.

  29. At the same time he ordered a magnificent entertainment for the ambassador, who remained at Goa; and that if any of his train would receive baptism, no cost should be spared at that solemnity.

  30. By the way, my dear, we must keep open house for the entertainment of family connections when they are here to attend the wedding.

  31. So the first day passed on and everybody thought it was the very finest entertainment that ever was seen.

  32. So orders were given for a huge entertainment in the Arta Gardens just outside Kâbul.

  33. Neither will I inflict weariness upon myself or you, by a detailed account of the kind and order of the games at this time exhibited for the entertainment of the people.

  34. It were in vain to attempt to recall for your and Lucilia's entertainment the many pleasant things which were both said and done on this day never to be forgotten.

  35. From my intercourse with him I shall look to draw up long and full reports of much that shall afford both entertainment and instruction to you all.

  36. To drop a word or two would provide entertainment throughout the length of a fitting; and, for the rest, the mystery of the situation had its charm for the romantic Irish strain in her blood.

  37. If, he had not achieved things, his attitude seemed to say, it was because he had never been in the race, because he had preferred to stand aside and enjoy the reposeful entertainment of the spectator.

  38. The prospect of securing both entertainment and mystery at the modest expenditure of fifteen dollars a week impressed her as very good business, for she combined in the superlative degree the opposite qualities of romance and economy.

  39. During the entertainment Lord Malden never ceased conversing with me: he was young, pleasing, and perfectly accomplished.

  40. Several of the nobility, who went down to pay their compliments to the Prince, visited his Royal Highness in the Pavilion, who gave a very superb entertainment to the officers of his regiment, etc.

  41. After the first race, the Prince, with a select party, retired to partake of an entertainment provided for them at the seat of Mr. Wyndham, near Lewes.

  42. There is a Merchant an intimate friend of mine that wants a Store-house-keeper; Now if you can cast accompts ever so indifferently, you shall find entertainment from him, and 40 l.

  43. At four o'clock in the afternoon the entertainment began.

  44. She not only did not seek to please, but she made no attempt to conceal her aversion from the society of women, and her preference for those forms of entertainment where they were found in fewest numbers.

  45. But, indeed, the entertainment of the 466 stranger guests was very simple.

  46. So the old gentleman passed but a sad day, and could only console himself by resolving to be loyal to the last to his sovereign, and to provide him an entertainment of which he should not be ashamed.

  47. The Prime Minister had intended that his entertainment should take the shape of a banquet; but the ladies insisted upon a ball, and a ball it was consequently to be.

  48. Bills notifying the approaching entertainment are stuck up at the corners of the streets; and every one is anxious to obtain a lista de los toros.

  49. Every occasion on which an entertainment of this sort takes place is attended with loss of life, and sometimes the sacrifice both of men and horses is very considerable.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entertainment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amusement; athletics; attraction; ball; benefit; bill; blowout; board; cabaret; comfort; content; debut; dinner; dissipation; distraction; diversion; divertissement; ease; enjoyment; entertain; entertainment; exhibit; exhibition; feast; feed; festival; festivity; fruition; fun; gaiety; gratification; gusto; housewarming; interest; kick; luxury; mask; masque; masquerade; meal; meat; mess; mirth; party; pastime; performance; play; pleasure; premiere; presentation; presentment; production; recital; recreation; refection; refreshment; relaxation; relish; satisfaction; shindy; show; shower; smoker; solace; sport; spread; stag; table; treat; tryout; zest