Sentence examples for trying to amuse from inspiring English sources

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

He was also trying to amuse, enthrall and inspire his community.

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?

I was only trying to amuse, not to harm anyone," he said in a statement to People.

Douglas, the rooster, seemed logical and even-tempered, and didn't appreciate the way that Carol was trying to amuse himself.

I potter about and try to amuse myself.

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

Her aunt treated her with studied casualness, her visitors tried to amuse her and not mention her illness.

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.