Sentence examples for personal amusement from inspiring English sources

His outsize personality incorporated a personal amusement park, a pet chimp named Bubbles, and a string of accusations involving inappropriate relations with children.

At one point he accuses her of treating Beijing as her own personal amusement park.

The schedule left little time for personal amusement — which seemed to be the point.

Of course, uber-wealthy tech entrepreneurs aren't just buying rockets for their personal amusement.

But disaster can also deliver a jolt of purpose — something to live for beyond comfort or safety or personal amusement.

A variety of wind instruments in traditional cultures are used for personal amusement, and some are known to accompany vocal performance and dance.

As reading shifts "from the private page to the communal screen," Mr. Carr writes in "The Shallows," authors "will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as 'groupiness,' where people read mainly 'for the sake of a feeling of belonging' rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement.

This is where we are in the era of personal genomics: some modest amusement, a few interesting tidbits, a bit of useful information, but mostly the promise of much better things to come.

Responses ranged from commentary on Us Weekly's advice, GIFs and memes of amusement (my personal favorite was one of a young Michael Jackson smiling and eating popcorn) and general acknowledgement that the point went to US Weekly.

In particular, payments for cars, especially for a second, or subsequent cars the average number of cars owned by households is 0.51 in Q1 and 1.8 in Q5 (NSFIE, 2004)—and for durable products for amusement, such as personal computers, can strongly affect the material footprints for the critical metals examined in this study.

A recent census conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau found that from 1990 to 1998, personal consumption and expenditures for amusement and recreation increased by $31.5 billion, with an overall industry gross of $56.2 billion.