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Example sentences for: amuse

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The function of business jargon is threefold: it describes new phenomena ( PCN, Knowbot ); it can camouflage unpleasantness ( Decruitment, RIF ); or it can simply amuse ( Globasm, Glocal ).
Performing parrots amuse with circus tricks, and caged birds of every imaginable hue are kept in beautiful gardens.
But far more hilarious are those items penned by the Bard that were never intended to shock or amuse a future evil-minded generation such as ours with indelicate, let alone indecent, suggestiveness, Rex Harrison or no!
But reviving Shylock--without a trace of historical awareness--to amuse uncomprehending children seems obviously vicious rather than funny.
I reported this in a letter to Dr. Wilson: it seemed to amuse him, and he sent me a small fruitcake that Christmas.