How to Use amusing in a Sentence
amusing
adjective- It was amusing to hear her tell the story.
- He's one of the most amusing people I know.
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That was an amusing thing to record.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
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The rest of the judges found the whole thing to be amusing as well.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 19 June 2019
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The movie, in its mud-on-the-doily way, is amusing enough to get by.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
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At home, those cases can be even more amusing.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
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There also are memes out there and some amusing video spoofs, too.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
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At least that’s a fairly swift and amusing enough process.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
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There was an amusing sequence in this game that got a rise out of the crowd.
—Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
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If only those jokes were amusing.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
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While amusing in their own right, these zingers have a plot function as well.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
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There are people who find this amusing and but a tempest in a teapot.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
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Their fear rubbed off to create an amusing and sometimes scary film.
—Liza Foreman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
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The sketch has a great ending stinger and is very amusing throughout.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Also crass, and amusing, was a rap song about a smelly Uber ride.
—Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2018
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Alvarez found the entire scene amusing but that’s the fight game.
—Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
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Is there a more amusing (and decadent) way to make a cup of hot chocolate?
—Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
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In the first episode, his bits were more distracting than amusing.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
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No doubt, Burns would have found the high-toned moralism of our age amusing.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
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The video has since racked up a number of comments from users who found the video amusing.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
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Thirty-two years later, the mishap seems, above all, amusing.
—Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 11 June 2023
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The image is amusing in the way that the foibles of the elderly can be.
—Max Norman, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
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Last up, and perhaps the most amusing, is to pour that juice into an ice cube tray and freeze.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 8 Aug. 2020
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There’s something amusing about a pizza served on a slab with a pair of kitchen shears on the side.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
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Smith’s involvement, though, is a bit more amusing.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 May 2026
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This is an amusing word choice for a man who hates orthodoxies of all kinds.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
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That a tough-guy closer is coming in to a song preteen girls love is amusing.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
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So the idea of finding nearly the worst people to solve this thing was very amusing to me.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
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Besides the amusing name play, Dupont sees the brands being aligned by vibe.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
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Use your mind for amusing past times like reading, writing and playing games.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
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