Sentence examples for first entertained from inspiring English sources

His responses first entertained and then provoked, but did not educate; his evidence was not a lesson, merely a display.

Ludwig later claimed to have first entertained thoughts of suicide at around the age of ten, before any of his brothers had died.

When Pettitte first entertained the thought about coming back, he admits now that he did not envision his ability snapping right back into place.

About 70 years after he first entertained at a birthday show for $5 or $10, Mr. Tanis is still performing magic tricks at parties around the state.

Radcliffe underwent surgery in August when it emerged her foot problems were more serious than first thought and it was then she first entertained a future without competition.

On Sunday, 50 years after the Giants first entertained a young Kraft, the Giants and the Patriots — their entanglement stretching through generations and championships, shared philosophy and similar results — will be together again, facing off in the Super Bowl.

He gives another definition: "Entertainment enables people to pass the time pleasantly, and any writing should first entertain.

I'll admit (as I'm constantly being reminded by my family, who find my attitude upsetting and incomprehensible) that we did at first entertain the normal idea of a massive party with all the trimmings.

He believes that as artist you can not enlighten anyone until you first entertain them.

Pinkner explained that "we wrote the episode, perhaps foolishly, assuming that we would be on for Season 4. We never for one second entertained that it would be the end of the series.

In the final pages of the book, Coelho discovers what he calls the "secret of my sword," and first entertains the notion of fulfilling his childhood ambition to be a writer.