entertaining
adjective
en·ter·tain·ing
ˌen-tər-ˈtā-niŋ 
: providing entertainment : diverting
an entertaining book
an entertaining speaker
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Examples of entertaining in a Sentence
a list of entertaining things to do on a snow day
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The slugger’s most entertaining knock came in the fourth, when Soto and some careless defense turned a two-bagger into a Little League homer.
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
The kind of film that shakes your seat, blasts your ears, and tugs at your heartstrings with excessive, yet entertaining force.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 July 2024
Lummis built his house, El Alisal, with rocks dragged out of the arroyo, and opened it for business, the business of entertaining L.A.’s visiting luminaries.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
The brothers are both schemers and Rodat finds enough complexities in their motivations to make those mind games entertaining.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
The kind of film that shakes your seat, blasts your ears, and tugs at your heartstrings with excessive, yet entertaining force.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 July 2024
Lummis built his house, El Alisal, with rocks dragged out of the arroyo, and opened it for business, the business of entertaining L.A.’s visiting luminaries.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
The brothers are both schemers and Rodat finds enough complexities in their motivations to make those mind games entertaining.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
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“Entertaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entertaining. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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entertaining
adjective
en·ter·tain·ing
ˌen-tər-ˈtān-iŋ
: providing amusement, diversion, or recreation
an entertaining book
entertainingly
adverb
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