Sentence examples for did to amuse from inspiring English sources

In the end, just as I did 19 years ago at a minor league ballpark in central Illinois, I won't remember him for whatever he did to amuse the cheering mob of the bloodthirsty coliseum.

This building, like too much of Samarkand and other ancient Uzbek towns that are now tourist attractions, is essentially a fake, but it does make clear that consigning foreigners to the Bug Pit was not the only thing this land's past leaders did to amuse themselves.

It was, said Smith in the same interview, one of the things she did to "amuse" herself.

But after dinner, they do what they do to amuse themselves.

Fans expected to see Don Vito, not Vincent Margera … You may find the behavior vulgar and disgusting, but it was done to amuse, to entertain, to get a laugh".

It was all done to amuse the 1200 people who were expected to attend the April in Paris Ball that evening.

The second stage is when you start doing what you think is funny - the stuff you do to amuse your friends.

When Vian was twenty-one, he married Michelle Léglise, the daughter of an inventor, and his first attempts at writing were done to amuse her.

"Terriers" hangs rich people out to dry, makes fun of yuppie affectation and seeks as much to position itself on the right side of the class war as it does to amuse us.

All Jones can do to amuse himself is to paint this wall with its black perforations, its relics of plaster, its ruinous brickwork and, above it, that facade cutting short an abstract blue rectangle.

This exercise in dexterity is the sort of thing you might do to amuse the kids, and teach them something about keeping a cool head and a steady hand.