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[ US /ˌɛnɝˈteɪn, ˌɛntɝˈteɪn/ ]
[ UK /ˌɛntətˈe‍ɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. provide entertainment for
  2. take into consideration, have in view
    He entertained the notion of moving to South America
  3. maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
    entertain interesting notions
    harbor a resentment
    bear a grudge

How To Use entertain In A Sentence

  • Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
  • Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
  • She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • You may also have added expense for client lunches and entertainment. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
  • The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
  • The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
  • While dockside or at anchor, the back of the helm seat may be flipped forward to make a U-shaped settee for entertaining.
  • For local entertainment you would have to hire the raucously energetic rock group that rehearses in the village hall.
  • To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
  • The ufological entertainers, mentioned above, have incorporated it as part of their acts.
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