Sentence examples for an amusing example of from inspiring English sources

It might be an amusing example of a job that a klutzy or tactless sitcom character would be ill-suited to doing.

To the world press, it was an amusing example of the barely civilized native with amazing natural abilities meeting his master, the tolerant, sophisticated royal.

No one said a word about any of this, but I couldn't help chuckling to myself it seemed like an amusing example of what psychologists call "social comparison" or "keeping up with the Joneses".

An amusing example of the depths to which these speculations have sunk came from a technical paper by Princeton University researchers in which they used an epidemiological approach to model social-networking affiliations.

A quilt made by Lavinia Rose of Cortlandville, N.Y., in the 1860's is an unintentionally amusing example of such layered meanings.

In his parliamentary cartoons he emphasized idiosyncrasies of face and dress: an amusing example is the strip cartoon "Getting Gladstone's Collar Up".

In a grim yet darkly amusing example of the militants' ability to survive and thrive, in 2002 Taliban leader Mullah Omar escaped the US Army on a motorbike.

Here is a very different and rather amusing example of the challenges of rendering Tolstoy's prose faithfully.

In an issue that went to press on January 20th, The New Yorker's Talk of the Town included a piece by White calling parrot fever merely "the latest and most amusing example of the national hypochondria": There have been hundreds of national menaces, keeping us all on tenterhooks, keeping the populace feeling the national pulse and applying the national stethoscope.

Finally, for me the most amusing example of musical refusal came in December 2009 when the band Rage Against the Machine were the focus of a successful campaign, with their song Killing in the Name, to keep Simon Cowell and his X Factor winner Joe McElderry, off the Christmas No 1 spot.

It also looks at a few amusing examples of ambiguity in sentences, which can make pupils' writing hilarious but difficult to understand.