Amuse used in a sentence

Amuse in a sentence as a verb

This was a benign prank and was done mostly to amuse.

In fact, I think Scala is mostly made to amuse its compiler writers.

I'm sure in the future, kids will find their own stupid and dangerous stuff to amuse themselves with.

I accept that writing for my own amusement has about as much value for others as laughing at my own jokes.

I usually write these sort of titles because they amuse me rather than in the extreme hope of linkbaiting.

That is exactly the sort of thing I would say if I wanted to amuse myself by annoying US politicians.

I sometimes amuse myself by thinking about how Nixon would be far too liberal to get elected today.

A telltale sign of a great game is that players themselves, in exploring the game, find new and interesting things to amuse themselves.

"It was the urge to amuse that recently prompted Cameron to riff on an old TV ad and..." It wasn't the urge to amuse, and anyone who tries to suggest that Cameron, or frankly any of our leading politicians, has a sense of humour, hasn't spent enough time listening to them talk.

I don't know if the distinction is so much between "important" and "unimportant" as it is between "building games that amuse people" and "building games that function as electronic Skinner boxes.

Based on the historical patterns though a sociopath was typically someone lacking any type of empathy, so they would do things hurt other people just to amuse themselves by watching the results.

Oh, and it might amuse Yahoo employees to know that their recycling program is a complete sham -- everything is emptied into the same trash containers anyway, and the workers are forbidden from taking the cans away to cash in themselves.

It was an imagination of how an interaction might go, with a dash of hyperbole mixed in, designed to both amuse, and make reference to pg's flair for directing people to focus on those important, fundamental questions like "Who needs this" and "what problem does this solve?

My favourite was the supersonic hailstone story, fired as part of a hailstone ingestion test, but with uncertain results, the final resting place of said hailstone still being slightly obscure to this day. If anyone in the greater Bristol area got hit by a particularly hard snowball in the early sixties, the Filton test engineers are very sorry, and would like to apologise!However, it is often the little insights into the past that amuse one the most and stick in one’s mind.

Like some decadent Roman emperor towards his circus act: "amuse me or die".Not to mention that amazing some exec with something "awesome", as everybody has witnessed at some point, can be miles away from shipping solid code and solving the company's real problems keeping it from sinking.

Also don't base any relationship on financial benefits - many a time we've had literally nothing to this point we had to eat on 12GBP a week for a couple of months and put every bill off and that's not been a problem because we're good company for each other without any tangible items to amuse us.