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How to use amuse in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb

Amuse means to entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions. Example: “I watch these movies because they amuse me.”

Examples of amuse by meaning

verbTo entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.

  • I watch these movies because they amuse me.
  • It always amuses me to hear the funny stories why people haven't got a ticket, but I never let them get in without paying.

verbTo cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

  • His jokes rarely fail to amuse me.

More sentences with amuse

  • The children were playing keepie-uppie to amuse themselves.From the entry keepie-uppie
  • The idea amuses me: trash taking itself out is a goddamn public service.2020, Ivy Wonder, Endgame: A Dark Mafia Romance. From the entry the trash takes itself out
  • Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism. From the entry artsome
  • I sometimes amuse myself by making spray bows with a plant spray.2002, John Naylor, Out of the Blue: A 24-Hour Skywatcher's Guide, page 106. From the entry spray bow
  • There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced.1998, Humphrey McQueen, Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?, Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry politically correct
  • We’ll amuse ourselves while eating snackeroos . . . no, snackerinos.1985 November 14, UW-Madison News Service, quoting Frederic [Gomes] Cassidy, “Folk-saying king Cassidy to be honored”, in Wisconsin State…. From the entry snackerino
  • THE verb whose past tense is “slayed” is defined by Chambers as “to amuse very much; to impress very much”.1989 May 14, John Hart, “Some will dance, and others will not, le quatorze juillet”, in Peregrine Worsthorne, editor, The Sunday…. From the entry tua culpa
  • What do they do to amuse themselves in Rome?1973, Paul Foster, Elizabeth I & Other Plays, Calder & Boyars, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry God's teeth
  • Bart Blandino . . . refers to himself as a Mediterranean Irishman—an expression which never fails to amuse us.1956 December 27, “Visiting Your Newspaper”, in Oswego Valley News. From the entry Mediterranean Irishman
  • My Darling Girl, In London the other day I heard a piece of news which may amuse you.1923 September 9, Lord Curzon, [Letter to his wife]. From the entry keep
  • We can amuse ourselves with mademoiselle's rigmaroles afterwards."1910, A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVII, in At the Villa Rose. From the entry rigmarole
  • Recently, a fan asked a weird question, wanting to see a picture of her feet, which clearly didn't amuse her one bit.2022 March 27, Debkinkar Maity, “'U Down Horrendous Huh?' – Naomi Osaka Responds to a Fan Asking For Pictures of Her Feet”, in…. From the entry down horrendous
  • "Gave her anything she wanted - her own car, her own bank account, a free leg to amuse herself as she pleased.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 173. From the entry cuckold
  • "Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition."1920, Edith Wharton, chapter X, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry inanition
  • A redent refurb means that there is now a larger play area for children, with a table and crayons to amuse them while you flex Daddy's Amex.2005, Emmah Duffus, Charlotte Purssord,, edited by Emmah Fuffus, Where to Wear London 2006: Fashion Shopping From A-Z, Where to Wear…. From the entry refurb
  • Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.2005 November 2, Leander Kahney, “The Cult of iPod”, in Playlist. From the entry playlistism
  • Some day, when the Wateaus of the future are painting the court ladies who again dance pavanes in sunlit glades, wearing wigs and crinoline, such data will amuse.1917, Emily Burbank, Woman as Decoration. From the entry pavane
  • Often when riding on subway of trolley the writer amuses himself by making a mental list of the birds which misadorn the hats of the women passengers.1916, Alabama Bird Day Book, page 84. From the entry misadorn

Meaning of amuse

  1. verb To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.
  2. verb To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.
  3. verb To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

Full definition of amuse

Questions about amuse in a sentence

How do you use amuse in a sentence?
Amuse is used as a verb. For example: “I watch these movies because they amuse me.”
What is a short sentence with amuse?
“His jokes rarely fail to amuse me.”
What does amuse mean?
Amuse means to entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: amuse (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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