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amusement

Amusement is the feeling you have when something is fun or funny or makes you laugh. An amusement is something that gets your attention and that you like; something like playing; something that is good but not useful. Movies, video games and toys are amusements. An amusement park has games, special food, and rides like a roller coaster and a merry-go-round. Movie theaters, arcade and restaurants are good places for amusement.

amusement

a feeling of delight at being entertained (= entertainment) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

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Simple sentences

This kind of amusement has no attraction for me.
It took ten years to build the amusement park.
To our amusement, the curtain began to rise ahead of time.
I found little amusement in reading.
She looked at me in amusement.
The city became popular thanks to the amusement park constructed last year.
We do not live for idle amusement.
Yesterday, I ran into my teacher at the amusement park.
Tom asked Mary to give him a ride to the amusement park.
After a day of visiting the amusement park, the children fell asleep on the car ride home.
To my amusement, everyone believed my story.
Tom went to an amusement park.
Tom's eyes twinkle with amusement.

Movie subtitles

Yeah. Now aside from being nice ornaments. a fella can have a whole lot of harmless amusement outta these here toys.
It's a subject of amusement to the school.
I don't cough for my own amusement, Mama.
Dancing is a charming amusement for young people.
Really, Lady Catherine, I think it would be very hard on younger sisters to be kept without society or amusement until the elder ones were married.
Mr. De Winter, I want you to believe we all feel very deeply for you, but I don't conduct this inquiry for my own amusement.
Why does a professional fisherman go fishing for his own amusement?
Does a professional fisherman go fishing for his own amusement?
More for my own amusement than for profit, as you know.
I'd price it every now and then, just for my own amusement.
You think I restricted Flynn for my own amusement?
We're more in need of men than amusement.
It happened on an island, in an amusement park.
Amusement park.
I hope it provided you both with amusement to know that I still love her.
This morning at 10:30, this boy entered the premises of the world exhibition from the side of the amusement parks, by pulling out a post in the fence, because he didn't have a ticket.
It's a shame to miss your amusement.
One of the Chinese worked in an amusement park.
An empty amusement park makes a good hideout and she wanted me hidden.
Amusement park. Quick.
He's gone to the amusement park.
Suspect bound for amusement park in taxi.
Now aside from being nice ornaments. a fella can have a whole lot of harmless amusement outta these here toys.
Those were fables grandmother invented, on rainy afternoons for our amusement.
Mr. De Winter, I want you to believe we all feel very deeply for you in this matter. But you must remember that I don't conduct this inquiry for my own amusement.
Musician at the amusement park.
They play and sing in the amusement parks.
Shall we say amusement. You thought you'd created a new Earth.
I'm not going to sit here trying on hats for your amusement!
You'll ruin a whole life for your amusement.
The business of frivolity, joy, amusement, like a fairy tale!
People lack amusement nowadays.
You fight in the street, you fight at the amusement park, you fight at the dance.

News and current affairs

For an American, there is a certain amusement in Australian worries about the deficit and debt: their deficit as a percentage of GDP is less than half that of the US; their gross national debt is less than a third.
What extending basic rights to great apes does mean is that they will cease to be mere things that can be owned and used for our amusement or entertainment.
The biggest impediment to such an education are the mass media, with its tendency to cultivate superficiality and amusement.
MELBOURNE - Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her.
One of Tilly's offspring, sold to an amusement park in Spain, has also killed a trainer, as have orcas in other parks.
The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses.
Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement.

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