Sentence examples for an amusing instance from inspiring English sources

My husband and I could have seen the lower scores as a disturbing sign of the decline of our daughters' teachers, school or academic development, but instead we saw them largely as an amusing instance of identical twin weirdness.

*** Read Pierre Villey's Montaigne en Angleterre for both a tour de force treatment of this subject and an amusing instance of the French attitude to it, which is (or was for a long time) that we English are a little bit weird about Montaigne.

(In an amusing instance of affectation-upmanship, Assange claims his derives from an ancestor who was a Taiwanese pirate). Or perhaps Nigel is acting as a conduit for communications between Julian and his would-be love interest and occasional embassy visitor Pamela Anderson, like the kid in The Go-Between who never has quite the right togs for the elevated milieu in which he suddenly finds himself.

At Yimas, I saw an amusing instance of worlds colliding as local teacher and community leader Lawrence Doming, wearing face paint and little else but jewelry, chatted on high-tech topics with my software engineer husband, who wore a golf shirt and shorts.

Perhaps the most amusing instance of newfound fame among lesser-known players was shown on the Twitter feed of the reserve defensive end Justin Trattou.

He also pointed to "some rather amusing instances" in which, he maintained, Filipinos had invited torture.

For instance, you might open with an amusing anecdote about your own struggles with the old system you'd like to replace.

I now think that many of these instances can be viewed as part of an amusing riff on the wider nature of the book.

It's an amusing interface, but you can't lock an attribute — a variety of liquor, for instance — and have the other two attributes spin.

One such instance is the Thanksgiving edition of the New Yorker, which has an amusing cover (follow the link for a better-quality version of the image).

When the Little Moon members, for instance, meet a boy who's ostracized because no one likes his pet snake, they put on an amusing jungle skit.