Example sentences for: amusing

How can you use “amusing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As I use such books mainly as reference books, I am probably the wrong reviewer for this work by the estimable Nigel Rees, a Londoner well known as the host of a BBC radio program, Quote ... Unquote , who publishes an amusing, entertaining, informative newsletter with the same title.

  • It also struck me as odd, in view of how inventive and amusing this jargon is, how little is used for background colour in TV police dramas and, when the programme-makers use it at all, how often they get it wrong.

  • Other books, which I still believe to be good ( Word for Word , by Edward C. Pinkerton), amusing ( Wordsmanship , by Claurène duGran, a thinly disguised anagram of Laurence Urdang), and useful ( Verbatim Volumes I-VI and the Index thereto, altogether four books), have not fared so well: indeed, a substantial portion of the stock at our warehouse in Pennsylvania consists of Word for Word and the Verbatim volumes.

  • Though the buildup is sharply amusing in retrospect, it has succeeded in making Pat's return to television an event.

  • And Chatterbox continues to find amusing Roberts' desperate attempts to change the subject ("Senator, on guns and violence" and "Can we get to guns and violence?"


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