(v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
(v.) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
(v.) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
(v. i.) To muse; to mediate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) Students have been amused by the amount of public response to this action.
(4) But she is determined to reassert her authority and appears not to have been amused by the remark.
(5) In La Shish, the beloved local halal restaurant where Wanda Beydoun has worked a minimum wage managing job for 16 years, these stereotypes are a source of amusement.
(6) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
(7) Israeli media reports said the rocket came down near an amusement park in sand dunes on the edge of the city.
(8) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
(9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
(10) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
(11) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
(12) But my amusement should be a problem for movement conservatism.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest We are most amused … The Windsors, starring Harry Enfield and Hadyn Gwynne, centre.
(14) In Brussels, the reaction was more bemusement than amusement.
(15) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(16) It amuses me that he calls his new material "songs" when they are so unsingable.
(17) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
(18) The tribunal ruled: "The comment having been made, other people in the room, including other supervisors, laughing and finding it amusing, was inevitably conduct that any gay police officer would reasonably consider … degrading."
(19) "The part in the film is small, I thought it would be amusing.
(20) Now tell us this, Robbie, when you collected your MBE from the queen, did you exchange amusing chitchat with the woman who most of us only ever encounter on stamps?
Gratify
Definition:
(v. t.) To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
(v. t.) To requite; to recompense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high support for organizations like MAPW was gratifying.
(2) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(3) Anatomical results have been gratifying in that most patients are totally rehabilitated and may swim or shower without restrictions.
(4) A small number of patients with limited stage C carcinoma of the prostate have been treated with combined interstitial and external beam radiotherapy with gratifying results.
(5) This paper reviews the current trends in treatment and presents the authors' experience with an aggressive but simple surgical approach in highly competitive athletes that can yield gratifying results for both the athlete and physician.
(6) Despite these risk factors and a high postoperative complication rate, gratifying results may be achieved in these patients with a comprehensive understanding of regional surgical anatomy and a multidisciplinary approach to their care.
(7) While it is impossible to predict the outcome in many individual cases, it is also apparent that gratifying long-term results in addition to palliation can be achieved if one is perseverant and persistent in the application of sound principles in the management of this disorder.
(8) Both patients showed gratifying responses to therapy.
(9) In aortic stenosis it constitutes a gratifying palliative procedure in older patients at high surgical risk.
(10) The process is meticulous, but the results are gratifying when new data on nurse practitioners can be generated.
(11) It has been gratifying to observe a consensus emerge among experimental observations regarding the process of alcoholic fibrosis.
(12) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(13) The early results with the PCA total hip replacement have been most gratifying, especially the absence of complications related to the acetabular component.
(14) Where its implementation is vigorous and sustained, the results are extremely gratifying; but problems, both technical and operational, need to be constantly reviewed and solutions found.
(15) The results are very gratifying as far as tenosynovectomy in the carpal tunnel and the pain is concerned.
(16) Four behavioral dispositions indicated a state of high emotional involvement in the marriage: striving to gratify interpersonal needs primarily through the marital relationship; needing to receive affection and desiring to provide support; desiring to satisfy these needs in a mutually satisfying way; and becoming irritated and hostile when maritally dissatisfied.
(17) Correct selection of the metal implant, meticulous attention to the biomechanical considerations and restoration of bone continuity by means of methylmethacrylate are most important if a gratifying result is to be obtained.
(18) Uncomplicated panic disorder can be easily managed by the primary care physician and is very often a rewarding and gratifying experience.
(19) The inherent capacities of national health services to execute their smallpox eradication programmes was gratifying.
(20) I am gratified that the Critique of Pure Reason, which must be surely one of the most difficult works of philosophy ever written, should have been chosen as among the most influential of all academic books,” he said of the 18th-century text.