Sentence examples for considerable amusement from inspiring English sources

She watched her sister with considerable amusement.

I have thought about extending Dry January this year, and the suggestion has been met with considerable amusement and scepticism.

Despite the considerable amusement quotient, there is nothing here that you would mistake for seriously good art.

The ball bounces up to hit Brownlie in the swingers, to the considerable amusement of his team-mates.

(He understands spoken English well but does not speak it beyond a few phrases, a twist of considerable amusement to him given that his father taught English).

It was only last year that Andrews learned, with considerable amusement, that McEwan had expressed his indebtedness to her biographical memoir, No Time for Romance (1977), in his acknowledgments in Atonement (2001).

She once wrote Hyman a six-page letter explaining why she would eventually divorce him: "I used to think . . . with considerable bitter amusement about the elaborate painstaking buildup you would have to endure before getting [one] of your new york dates into bed . . .

But when they realise this is our second parliamentary chamber and it has considerable lawmaking powers, that amusement quickly turns to shock.

Last year, we spent over an hour in Tarakan (East Kalimatan, Indonesia) going into every store, market stall and hotel lobby in a fruitless search, during which we were an object of some local amusement and considerable curiosity.

Every now and then, a large group would secure passes and visit theaters, racetracks and other places of amusement in Washington, attracting "considerable attention".

And, his use of the violence as a source of amusement negates the sometimes considerable irony of so much of the rest.