Sentence examples for forms of amusement from inspiring English sources

Video art, having gleaned more and more from Hollywood and Madison Avenue, yearly raises the level of its production values while settling for ever more diverse forms of amusement.

As the financial crisis forces marketers like automakers, financial institutions and retailers to cut back their ad spending, pitches for shows, movies, DVDs, video games and other forms of amusement — which typically retain their appeal for consumers during economic downturns — will take on more prominence in the media.

At the time, dance was generally considered a form of amusement, but Weaver viewed dance as more than entertainment.

I switched off the film and scrambled around for another form of amusement more appropriate for toddlers.

"The watching of clouds, whether as a method of forecasting or a form of amusement, has gone on for centuries," he said.

Two of the listeners told ABC News that the illicit snooping degenerated into a form of amusement, with analysts swapping transcriptions of pillow talk, phone sex and other intrusive details from the lives of "hundreds of ordinary Americans".

Then there is the Verlan of the urban professionals, bourgeois Verlan or 'Verlan geoisbour.' There is also the Verlan of the teenagers who use it to distinguish themselves from the adult word as a game and a form of amusement".

Freda and Toghestiy say they are tailed continually by undercover officers, which Toghestiy considers an "expensive form of amusement".

The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1942 upholding a Teaneck ordinance that had banned pinball machines on the grounds that they were gambling devices rather than a form of amusement.

When was the last time you went to see professional baseball or basketball or football or hockey -- or any other professional or semi-professional sport -- where every spare second wasn't filled with music, a commercial or some other form of amusement every time the action itself came to a halt?

(A "quack-quack is where you squat down like a duck, make your arms like wings, flap them, waddle around and say, "Quack, quack". It's a form of amusement for prisoners, but it's also meant to humiliate the quacker).