(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?
Wacko
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Don’t forget to tweet your thoughts on that and your opinions on meteorology to @KidWeil or graham.parker.freelance@guardiannews.com 3.09am GMT More thoughts on the weather J.R. (36 mins) is back: The sad thing is that all the wacko, biased U.S. supporters will try to frame this game in some sort of heroic, legendary framework when in reality it's just idiotic.
(2) Back in early 2013, shortly after Cruz’s arrival in the Senate, McCain had deemed him and colleagues with similarly flamboyant conservative plumage “wacko birds”.
(3) Cruz is used to mainstream Republican opprobrium – John McCain famously described him and fellow conservative Rand Paul as "wacko birds" – but he briefly became the most hated figure in Congress when he then failed to follow through on his strategy by winning enough support in the Senate, leaving Boehner blamed for shutting down the government.
(4) When Farage ran for election here in 2005, the party was regarded as a bunch of marginal wackos, rather than serious contenders.
(5) The GOP is known for a lot of wacko stances at the moment, but one of the few areas where it's leading the way – and Christie is a particular champion – is education.
(6) Strange, but I see wacko Bernie Sanders allies coming over to me because I’m lowering taxes, while he will double & triple them, a disaster!” he tweeted on Monday.
(7) The London mayor wrote that Isis, whom he described as "wackos", now controls an area the size of Britain and that the government had to be far more effective at preventing Britons from travelling to Syria or Iraq to join them.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cruz’s campaign launch video Veterans in Congress have expressed a distaste for Cruz’s theatrics, with Arizona senator John McCain at one point calling his colleague one of several “ wacko birds ” to have joined the party.
(9) By contrast, the junior Wacko Bird from Texas, Ted Cruz, will be popular only as long as GOP voters are day-dreaming about anybody but Obama in the White House and not making plans to actually accomplish anything.
(10) On US TV earlier this week the Black Swan director defended his version of Noah against "environmental wacko" accusations , telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "It was very clear to us that there was an environmental message [in the Bible].
(11) "In Wacko Wayne's world, the only answer to death by guns is to flood the country with more guns and stand ready for the shootout.
(12) One kind morning I got myself to a meeting with a marvellous occupational therapist, Nicky deCourcy, who stolidly laid out a few facts, among them the detail that I wouldn't be able to cope for a while with more than two extraneous interventions – quiet TV plus reading, say, or radio plus writing – and that sudden urgent sounds would send me, in the medical terminology, a bit wacko.
(13) "I was being a hippy on the stoned hippy trail in Goa – wacko land," he says.
(14) At present the police are finding it very difficult to stop people from simply flying out via Germany, crossing the border, doing their ghastly jihadi tourism, and coming back.” The mayor said that while Britain’s recent military interventions had left the nation reluctant to wade into overseas conflicts, “doing nothing is surely the worst of all” and warned that the Isis “wackos” must be tackled.
(15) Senator John McCain called Paul and cosignatory Ted Cruz " wacko birds " for their refusal to debate certain issues.
(16) Richard Scott Taylor, who put the pavilion together, described it as "a giant barrel of wacko".