amusement - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • afford: To all who are fond of garden scenes, in the great stile of Brown's finest works, Bowood will afford considerable amusement.
  • cause: This also caused yet more amusement in various onlookers.

Adjective modifier

  • wry: Not, of course, a happy smile, nor one of wry amusement.
  • endless: Another source of endless amusement to us greenkeeping folk is the quality of ladies ' golf.
  • innocent: The story concerns four teenagers who vist a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement.
  • much: Their arrival on the music scene heralded much amusement.
  • considerable: To all who are fond of garden scenes, in the great stile of Brown's finest works, Bowood will afford considerable amusement.
  • favorite: Today rafting trips are among the favorite amusements in Jamaica.

Modifies a noun

  • arcade: All amusement arcades need a license to enable the public to play on fruit machines where a cash prize can be won.
  • park: Do you think amusement parks should not be allowed to keep wild animals?
  • ride: Consider the analogy of an amusement park ride with a queue of people waiting to experience the ride.
  • machine: Full details of the taxation of amusement machines, including fixed odds betting machines, have been released.
  • permit: An amusement permit applied where there was a mixture of amusement and gaming machines or purely gaming machines.
  • device: BACTA have produced booklets for guidance on the manufacture, operation, maintenance & examination of coin-operated amusement devices.

Noun used with modifier

  • fairground: Fairground amusements appeared on the seafront and the Punch and Judy booth became a familiar sight on the beach.
  • seaside: Great Yarmouth Beach: : 25 minutes Famous for their sandy expanses and seaside amusements.
  • m: The help of m m amusement video brock peters the profits it.

Preposition: of

  • crowd: He's been getting that for five years, " said Nicol, much to the amusement of the capacity crowd.
  • rest: The dusty safari drive also left one jeep load of students resembling chimney sweeps much to the amusement of the rest of the group.

Preposition: with

  • prise: Children must not be permitted to operate any amusement with prizes or video machines which are in the licensed premises.

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