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How to use the word amused in a Sentence?

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I was sad for the institution, for the institution, they should have had their act together … and that was sad. It was nothing to be amused by or laugh at or anything. It was sad for the institution.

Paul Pelosi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Justice Thomas waited until page 62 to point out that the Second Amendment isn't a second-class right – And over on CNN, I was amazed and amused to watch legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin throw a hissy fit as if that's some new and novel concept.

Clarence Thomas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The [title of sex symbol] always amused me because, from my perspective, I’m a mom, a wife, an actress, a writer and homebody, i’m only a sex symbol with Alan.

Chrissy Snow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP While Vergaras wife admitted that she thought it was funny at first, Vergara himself wasless amused. Its a joke that wears out pretty quick, yeah, and I dont think its appropriate for little kids.

Marcelo Vergara

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They're about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again, president Donald Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but President Donald Trump'll have no legacy whatsoever.

Ann Coulter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there, the Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I started at Chanel, everybody told me 'Don't touch it, it is finished' and that amused me, it was like a challenge and it worked a 100 times better than I could have imagined.

Karl Lagerfeld

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil.

Caroline Weaver

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

James Thurber

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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