Sentence examples for entertaining someone from inspiring English sources

The reality of entertaining someone who was super-rich and famous in a modest house in a Berkshire village was daunting.

I'm pretty sure I didn't always enjoy entertaining someone else's kids with that Mousetrap game or brewing a blue box of macaroni and cheese.

Entertaining someone else's distasteful perspective can be educational.

JB: Entertaining someone while selling to them is not new.

Entertaining someone is nice, but selling to them is better.

'Oh no! I've entertained someone.

Because we eat, we dress, we decorate and even if it is only an offer of carrot sticks from a lunch box, we entertain someone, sometime.

For example, the person said, Mr. Kelly might use the club to entertain someone whom he might be seeking a favor from for the department, like "a noted intellectual who is an expert on counterterrorism".

Primates that we are, we presumably learned long ago that our nature at its most essential consists of being able to entertain someone, and of being entertained in return.

At the end of it, the author is invariably left with far more material than he can cram into five or ten thousand words:  reams of statistics, loads of telling anecdotes, pages of interviews with charming and intelligent people who said nice things about their new suit, and ever so many sparkling epigrams with which he longs to entertain someone besides himself.

He said "When you entertain someone and make it funny, sometimes you can get a message across Not that we're out here to send messages everywhere".