Example sentences for: amusing

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

  • They were less amusing when hailing World War I as the “world’s hygiene. ”

  • Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.

  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.

  • The current cycle of shock and horror about White House sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom in return for large contributions to the Democratic National Committee is amusing.

  • Eliot, who will no doubt share screenwriting credit with Stoppard in the film version of Cats , once referred to his poetry as a "superior amusement," a description that applies to Stoppard's plays as well: They are amusing, and they make us feel superior.


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