Sentence examples for amusing trick from inspiring English sources

"Louis XIII was not yet one year old: 'He laughed uproariously when his nanny waggled his cock with her fingers.' An amusing trick which the child soon copied.

However, the standing dogs are too cute for him to kill and, emotionally touched, he promises to never wear fur or kill any animals that can do an amusing trick.

One of Mr. Silver's most amusing tricks is to go off somewhere with the misbehaving dog and have a private chat.

In the four-minute video, posted in mid-September under the title "Kickalicious," the left-footed Rugland pulls off some of the most amusing tricks with a football since Lucy began duping Charlie Brown.

They pull off some amusing tricks with goatskin wine flasks, for example, and the teamwork of Mr. Platt and Mr. Stuhlbarg suggests a rather sinister codependency between their characters.

This is all it takes -- a few useless but highly amusing tricks -- to promote you into the highest rank of primates: the elite group that also includes chimpanzees, most likely bonobos and gorillas and of course us -- the naked apes, to use Desmond Morris's label.

While VNC is primarily a productivity tool, it can also be used to play amusing tricks on unsuspecting users.

It includes Sam Durant's fake rocks broadcasting Southern Rock music; an amusing mirror trick with slugs by Michael Coughlan; a semi-architectural structure made from plastic pipe and drywall by Christie Frields; a pristine Minimalist box with faux-functional holes by Carl Bronson; and a beige vinyl sheet with curious geometric punctuations by Shirley Tse Johnsonn).

Curley went beyond amusing dirty tricks to true intimidation.

At a rough estimate, half of what we find amusing involves using little linguistic tricks to conceal the subject of our sentences until the last possible moment, so that it appears we are talking about something else.

Likewise, if we were confronted with something which disorientated and distorted our senses, it would be deeply disturbing, but when it's put into the context of a magic trick, it becomes entertaining and amusing.