Sentence examples for failed to amuse from inspiring English sources

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When the races failed to amuse, the martyrs headed home.

It never failed to amuse Israelis that Rehavam Zeevi went through his adult life with the nickname Gandhi.

The pompous Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn Williams, played by Davies, was one of the central characters in the show and his eardrum-shattering bellow never failed to amuse viewers.

In her store was an aquarium where undulating red fish would try to bite my finger, pressed against the glass, with a stupid determination that never failed to amuse me.

Forty-nine days later he announced that the company was scrapping the Touchpad – a decision that failed to amuse the retailers who had pre-bought 200,000 of the devices.

I saw it in the disconcertingly intimate eye contact of a diplomat discussing dense policy initiatives; the exaggerated, courtly politeness of an elderly neighbor during our serendipitous morning encounters; the flirtatiousness of a female friend that oozed like honey at dinner parties; the banter of a journalist colleague that never ended and never failed to amuse.

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Yes, I realize that it is part of the nature of old amusement parks to fail to amuse us as the years pass.

This never fails to amuse the old men.

Skip... if the bad behavior of privileged, contemptible children fails to amuse you.

Team-mates coming to blows during a match never fails to amuse.

Gives his likes and dislikes, and some of the old stories that never fail to amuse people.

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