Sentence examples for try to amuse from inspiring English sources

I potter about and try to amuse myself.

I try to amuse them with my lack of everyday bush skills and fear of wild animals.

And nowhere is their control more strongly exerted than in the places where we try to amuse, or speak with disrespect, in a joke.

I'll feed the chameleons and try to amuse the cats, which are so bored now that they perk up when we turn on the TV, even the news.

E3 A New, Different TV Season The television season finally arrives tonight, tiptoeing in as carefully as it can, still not sure if it is appropriate to try to amuse and entertain a wounded country.

Previous efforts to rejuvenate the Oscars mostly flopped, including last year's event, which paired an ill-prepared, disaffected James Franco with a hypereager Anne Hathaway and had them try to amuse youth with lame jokes about text messages, Twitter and iPhone apps.

I was trying to amuse all of them, at the same time.

When he was at home, he tried to amuse the baby; he soothed her if she cried.

A recurrent theme was workers trying to amuse themselves in the long months without sun.

Is that caviar on my plate, or are you just trying to amuse me?

He frequently commits the error of trying to amuse us with grotesquerie while simultaneously expecting to engage our empathy.