How To Use Entertained In A Sentence
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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.
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It was indeed, the dirty brown hair was neatly combed and the coat was new and clean, he was smiling fit to burst as he entertained giggling ladies and laughing lords.
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I entertained a small conceit that in some way a part of me belonged in Hong Kong, but I was beginning to feel like a gate-crasher.
One From The Hart
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Nagesh compèred the show and kept the audience entertained with his mimicry.
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Guardastagno (forgetting the lawes of respect and loyall friendship) became overfondly enamoured, expressing the same by such outward meanes, that the Lady her selfe tooke knowledge thereof, and not with any dislike, as it seemed, but rather lovingly entertained; yet she grew not so forgetfull of her honour and estimation, as the other did of faith to his friend.
The Decameron
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Our goal is for the spectators to be entertained for four hours not only by the racing, but also by the raceway.
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The show follows the traditional plot of the fairytale story but with plenty of comedy and slapstick to keep the crowds entertained for both evening and matinee performances.
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Many of the performers had entertained in the services, and their humour was of a different kind from civilian humour.
CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
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Gretchen our Doberman was the best friend and pet a person could want and Bernie was sort of her chew toy, the dog to keep her entertained while we were away.
Undefined
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Carrying picnic baskets, and dressed for the occasion, the crowd was entertained by local musicians - part of a free concert laid on for the event.
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Although we entertained the idea of one of us moving, it just never seemed to be the right moment.
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Work is still chaotic, but at least I have my online friends to keep me occupied and entertained.
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Audiences are led on a tour and entertained along the way by singers, dancers and storytellers and are given the opportunity to speak to residents.
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Both have entertained, amused and mirrored life and the fantasy of life for millions.
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He has made that part his very own and has entertained audiences worldwide for 12 years.
The Sun
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According to Foxe, Elizabeth's servants "entertained and cheered" the commissioners "as appertained to their honors.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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She entertained the notion that her art might consist of a fine balance of painting and sculpture; that one disciple could inform and feed into the other.
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There I was hospitably entertained, and a supper of milk and goat’s flesh with a kind of oatcake was set before me, of which I ate heartily.
Erewhon
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From Mike Wallace, "This 'scandalmonger' was entertained and provoked by Ms. Garment's remarkable catalogue.
Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics
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My mind, firing on all cylinders, entertained these notions and more, delirious as I was with cabin fever, lack of social interaction, and those strange pointy champignons I had consumed earlier.
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For we call viands and ointments fine; and we say we have finely dined, when we have been splendidly entertained.
Symposiacs
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He entertained a packed audience at Ilkley Playhouse this week with his routine of hilarious, if not entirely printable, series of anecdotes and stories of English football in the 1950s and 60s.
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But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Samuel Pepys recorded that on 6 January 1660 he was entertained to dinner ‘which was good, only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome’.
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He was guest speaker at the event and entertained the guests with his witty repartee.
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The group's sheer chutzpah is so persuasive you're entertained all the way.
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Keeps hands busy and brain entertained at the same time.
Placemats & stuff
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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
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My MIL just got here a few hours ago and is keeping the kiddo entertained.
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So we will sit immobile for that last hour of incoming international flights, unentertained, unblanketed, and untoileted, and that will do the trick.
Harry Shearer: Airport Security: Everything but Accountability
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I'm looking to be entertained: boredom, tedium is the worst literary or filmic sin, and cannot be excused by a pretence to some spurious intellectual superiority.
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On June eighteenth, M. Doléris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy.
On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
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Over 1,000 children and adults were entertained by magicians and Hogwarts characters while they queued to get their hands on a first edition copy of the book.
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The ride up was mainly uneventful, it was a three-hour trip and the hostess of the train car kept us entertained with games and trivia about the Grand Canyon.
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That evening, as my parents entertained the neighbors, and pies, deep-dish pizza, and macaroni casseroles filled our kitchen counters, I stole a rope and a cinder block from a nearby yard.
Miracles, Inc.
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They're challenging, no doubt about it, and they'll certainly turn off the average cinemagoer who's just looking to be entertained by a good movie.
Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing
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The six-strong troupe entertained children and parents alike with circus acts, such as the trapeze, acrobatics, juggling and plate spinning.
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Victor has a preference for Hunsden, full as strong as I deem desirable, being considerably more potent decided, and indiscriminating, than any I ever entertained for that personage myself.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos.
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Rather than staying cozily in Mr.. Baird's parlor to be entertained by stereopticon views of Perth Harbor, though, Frank chose to keep his appointment for sherry with Mr. Bainbridge, a solicitor with an interest in local historical records.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained.
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Visitors dressed in straw boaters were entertained by various attractions, not least the upbeat swing of the Mainline Jazz band, kitted out in waistcoats and open-necked shirts.
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There's a reason for this: EPs and singles tend to serve as stopgaps in the rock world, small offerings to keep the masses entertained and hungry between albums.
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The owner, who looks like a playboy footballer, keeps guests entertained with a succession of anecdotes, culinary disquisitions and impromptu bursts of song.
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We were entertained in the company's hospitality suite.
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The sisters were raised as socialites who entertained, and were entertained by, both the cream and the froth of society.
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The key to hosting a dandy destination wedding is to pick out a location that will bring your guests with a beautiful background as well as a wealth of activities to keep them entertained for at least a few days.
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Some good questions were asked by the librarians, though, including the problem with gay secondary characters in fantastical settings (I interpreted this as how much 'weight' should be given to homophobia in these books when the world is new and the individual concerned is not the protagonist) and what book were the panelists currently reading (the audience was entertained by my description of Three Bags Full).
Travels and Teeth
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Visitors can also enjoy mulled wine and hot mince pies while being entertained by carol singers.
The Sun
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It happened on the morning after the festival of Mahashivaratri-the Great Night of Shiva-when, weakened by fasting and loosened by a kind of spiritual hangover, Navin revealed to Kudra that he adored horses and that during his youth had entertained the impossible dream of miraculously transcending Vaisya, the merchant caste, and ascending to Kshatriya, the warrior caste, so that he might ride.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Dinner guests will also be entertained by flamenco and paso doble dances, two renowned Spanish cultural performances that begin at 6:30 pm throughout the buffet promotion.
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Hundreds of children who arrived in the town were entertained by a disco in the square and street carnival along the main thoroughfare, with clowns and face painters on hand to add colour.
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And as of late he had placed such reliance in the fond love of his grandmother that his father and mother even could not exercise any extreme control over him, he had become so much the more remiss, dissolute, selfish and unconcerned, not taking the least pleasure in what was proper, that she felt convinced, whenever she entertained the idea of tendering him advice, that he would not listen to her.
Hung Lou Meng
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During the festival, South African cuisine, such as boerewors, ostrich, crocodile steaks, snoek, etcetera, will be served, whilst guests will be entertained by the South African song and dance group
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They respected his shrewd brain, and also knew him as a genial host when he entertained journalists and government press officers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which alternative possibilities in the Third Reich were never even entertained as such by the leadership?
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There is no reason to suppose that the idea of sparing him was ever entertained; but, wherever the blame lay, he was led to believe that a recantation might save him; and he did now at last break down utterly, and recant in the most abject terms.
England under the Tudors
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No Peace proposals could possibly be entertained from the murderer still at large and still claiming the right to murder.
The History and Significance of The National Anthem
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However, if you've ever entertained the idea of catching a steelhead, the time to act is now.
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Almost in the same years, P. P.arle [P.arle, 1976,1979], and subsequently N. Gisin [Gisin, 1984] and others, had entertained the idea of accounting for the reduction process in terms of a stochastic differential equation.
Collapse Theories
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He and his girlfriend, Diane McGarry, entertained a bundle of young nieces and nephews at Christmas.
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Nephew Emanuell, with Troopes of faire and towardly force, who were honoutably welcommed and entertained by the Duke, but much more by the Dutchesse, because shee was their sister in Law.
The Decameron
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The three predictions you say you made to me cannot be entertained, since they are vague and/or non-specific.
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The radio was already tuned to WABC, the dial set there on my ride home from work where Sean Hannity usually keeps me entertained.
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Guests were entertained by superhero characters, a balloon artist and face painter.
The Sun
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The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
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A triple purpose was thus served, -- the Venetian merchants were protected in their lives and goods, the national honor was saved from insult, and many an honest zecchino was turned by the innkeepers and others who lodged and entertained the customers of the merchants.
Venetian Life
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Guests ate, drank and partied whilst being entertained by an array of fireworks in the skies above.
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The horsemen looking on with the keen anticipation of those about to be mightily entertained paid me the compliment of rapidly becoming bored.
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And there were plenty of exhibits to keep them amused and entertained as well, such as Cadabra, featuring Jorvik-style rides but in little cars looking like Noddy's, which took us around displays of animatronic chocolate creatures.
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(for his family is one that stands in very good repute all over that country), entertained him here and there at their Christmas merrymakings, so that he was constantly riding to and fro, from one house to another, and sometimes, when the place of his destination was distant, or for other reason, as the unsafeness of the roads, he would be constrained to lie the night at an inn.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
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And yet I was entertained, due to the sheer exuberance of the production.
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Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.
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My eyes squinted up in pain and I briefly entertained the idea of spitting the food out and screaming loudly.
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Okay, I'll admit, Norwich entertained me on that little divertissement.
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Pick it up, flip through it, dip into the story at any point and you will come away better informed and surprisingly entertained by his sharp mind and punk sense of humour.
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Although the weather was hot, a line-up of bands entertained the musically inclined for the afternoon.
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Both tend to be egocentrically oriented we work in order to attain personal wealth, and we play to satisfy out own personal desire to be entertained.
TEXAS FAITH: What do your spiritual paths say about the role of play? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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Chinese tale two friends, wandering in the T'ien-t'ai mountains, are entertained by two beautiful girls, who feed them on a kind of haschisch, a drug made from hemp; and when they return they find that they have passed seven generations of ordinary men in the society of these ladies.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display.
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They show their appreciation when they are entertained by mihi of welcome in the Maori language.
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It was, by design, kissably sensuous, designed to arouse men and provoke the lust of masters; some girls are terrified to wear such lipstick; they know how it enhances their loveliness and proclaims them well as slaves; they understand well its intention and are seldom left long in doubt as to its effectiveness; had they originally entertained doubts as to its efficacy these doubts are often dispelled rapidly, as they squirm, naked and collared, perfumed, in the arms of a strong man, as it is being ruthlessly kissed from their lips.
Guardsman Of Gor
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In the learned, Grecophile culture of the Medici pope's court, courtesans were regarded as latter-day reincarnations of hetairai, the women who entertained men at the symposium in ancient Greece.
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Fans of gloomy, bloodthirsty action movies will probably be entertained.
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No doubt that Cannes nod (the first of several festival laurels picked up) stirred some controversy, because this is the kind of unflinchingly provocative movie that dares you to be entertained, or appalled, or both.
Reviews
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After tea, we were entertained with a sonata on the harpsichord by lady Bullford, who sung and played to admiration; but Sir Thomas seemed to be a little asinine in the article of ears, though he affected to be in raptures, and begged his wife to favour us with an arietta of her own composing. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Claims for injury or loss sustained as a result of the civil disturbances will not be entertained.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the conqueror of all his enemies Charles still entertained mighty projects, and in 1469 he obtained the possession of the landgraviate of Alsace and the county of Ferrette
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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And, to ensure against dummy candidates, the touts entertained only students with valid admission cards.
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While Violette entertained them with stories of increasing complexity, Katherine from beneath lowered lids stole occasional glances at Carlo.
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Dreams entertained by some Party leaders of large-scale steelworks and munition factories and large-scale collective agriculture were irrelevant and dangerous.
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I get entertained by a talent who dangles outsider clichés without any idea what to say.
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He wrote his stories, answered correspondence, rode the ranch, greeted and entertained guests — a good many of them complete strangers, old hobos, sailors, down-and-out pugs from the boxing ring, seeking a handshake, a handout and a meal from the notorious soft-touch, Jack London.
Wolf Dying: Page I
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Feeding hungry tummies and keeping little ones entertained is a bigger task than usual.
The Sun
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The summers of recent years have also been very disappointing and this has emphasised the need to get amenities in place to keep tourists entertained when the weather is bad.
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Hypotheses are suppositions about causes which may be entertained by a scientist in cases where it is not practical to induce the separate laws.
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That evening, while the ranch hands entertained themselves with games of horseshoes, Lennie stayed alone in the barn holding his pup.
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Moreover, she has to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals and employment figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reader is introduced to tropical dishes like ackee and saltfish, thirst quenchers like rum punch and is entertained by reggae, calypso and a week long carnival celebration.
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He entertained the audience for two hours with his wit and wisdom.
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Young girls entertained by walking on their hands or doing summersaults or just by dancing to the beat of a sestrum or a timbrel.
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The untruth is that Susan Sontag once read a novel by Cathleen Schine and was so entertained by its subtle meditation on questions of female intellect and crippling illness that she borrowed its title for a play she’d been thinking about writing, a play about Alice James’ heroic struggle with cancer, all the while certain that nobody would ever make the connection or confront her with the possibility of influence.
Vitro Nasu » 2006 » July
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In addition to its Nautical theme, this bar features much to keep you entertained, such as dartboards, pool tables, and video games.
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I was deeply moved - but also entertained - by your VE-Day feature in the May issue.
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If the race at the front was somewhat processional, Button getting past his team-mate on lap 44 with the greatest of ease was the only significant change, there was plenty to keep the crowd entertained.
Vettel keeps title hopes alive with emphatic win at Suzuka
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Medieval society was authoritarian and oppressive; if you entertained views different from those of the authorities, you kept quiet about it.
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He did not allow Beatrice to have boyfriends and entertained some rather unfatherly thoughts, which he expressed in verse.
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He entertained guests at the official luncheon with humorous tales during his time as editor.
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He was in residence mainly only at weekends, but entertained no guests.
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During the next two months, she was entertained royally.
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And as the clergyman gazed, the belief which had so strongly clung to him that the Earl of Etherington and young Valentine Bulmer were the same individual person, melted away like frostwork before the morning sun, and that so completely, that he marvelled at himself for having ever entertained it.
Saint Ronan's Well
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He entertained, he insisted, a high regard for Mrs. Hill, and the only thing he knew to her discredit was the fact that she was Major Hill's wife.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
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Under John Lasseter, a young animator rejected by Disney, Pixar started to develop a new kind of cartoon, which eschewed fairy-tale plots and entertained adults as well as children.
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Claims for injury or loss sustained as a result of the civil disturbances will not be entertained.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three predictions you say you made to me cannot be entertained, since they are vague and/or non-specific.
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To what extent the idea of disunion is entertained in some of the
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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How are we to be entertained by her zany antics when she's incarcerated?
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While listening to calypso music, many of those being entertained like to dance the limbo, a dance very popular among Grenadian Americans.
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Oldham's Bangladeshi community enjoyed traditional music of a different kind as Scottish bagpipes entertained crowds in Westwood.
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We also like to be amused and entertained.
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Not only did they put up a good show in adverse circumstances, they entertained the crowd greatly.
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Trying to tell us only a lack of sophisticated insights prevents us from being entertained by such displays is pseudery.
Times, Sunday Times
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We would have to say they were the best behaved and appreciative guests we have ever entertained.
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Most of the time, I'm minimally entertained.
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Valere is meant to be a street player lifted to societal acclaim by a deluded royal Joanna Lumley, who mistakes his endless persiflage for true poetry, and makes him the writer de jour, entertained and adored by high society.
Gwen Davis: La Bete
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We also like to be amused and entertained.
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Liparis, where they were entertained with generall rejoycing.
The Decameron
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He learned also that considerable doubts were entertained, as to the brig; and that the xebec and polacre had been signalled to go on ahead, so as to induce the brig -- if she should be an enemy -- to make an attack.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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She lived on the top two floors and entertained a variety of friends and admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it grew dark, Kane and I further entertained him with another round of swordplay.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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We were entertained by the familiar voices of crested bellbirds and rufous songlarks, but a different voice soon became evident.
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It seems surprising he should have entertained such an idea given that Vienna lay before him as a case study.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nursery rhymes or pop compilations will keep the children entertained.
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Finally, after nearly five hours of show, audience members beganslipping away into the warm June night, clutching their programs,souvenir t-shirts, and even some voter-registration forms, and smiledthe smiles of the thoroughly, debauchedly, and fabulously entertained.
On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
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They took a glass of precious sherry in the music room, and Six entertained them with a wobbling nocturne.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Gurgling underwater cries of ‘Manny’ were lost on my fellow strokers, but at least I entertained myself.
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Later, they will be entertained by The Chieftains and a troop of Irish dancers who will perform in a massive marquee which has been erected on the castle lawns.
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The popular, incomparable ‘Mr Clown’ entertained the children, regaling them for hours with a thousand tricks which enthralled the youngsters - and not a few adults as well, it is worth adding!
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Two dance companies, Dhoonya Dance Group and Bollywood Axion, entertained the crowds with special Holi dance routines, and a traditional Indian dhol drum player added his own rhythm to the festivities.
Jim Luce: Indian Spring Festival of Colors, Holi, Celebrated at South Street Seaport
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For years Nazi Germany's policy abroad has been that of exacting concessions with the threat that otherwise she will perpetrate a world horror by which the humane will be excruciated while she herself, not being humane, will be entertained if not exhilarated.
What Is Now At Stake In Europe
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Both artists entertained the crème de la crème of high society there, and both immortalised the house in their work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Envision remotely controlled party barges bombing down the highway while we eat and drink in merriment entertained by tv, movies, internet, music and my personal crack of choice “information”.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Cellphones, Driving, and “Inattention Blindness”
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As we munched on genips and slapped mosquitoes, we were entertained by numerous and colorful birds, which would make a bird-watcher cringe with envy.
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-- The moment the idea of ceasing to _do church_ was entertained by me, the true notion of what I was to do instead presented itself.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2
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I think this was a very well constructed story, the proof of which being the fact that I enjoyed it despite the fact that the main plot partook of the sort of relationship drama which, while I can appreciate as a creative work, I rarely find myself entertained by.
Review: Philippine Speculative Fiction IV (2 of 4) « BAHAY TALINHAGA
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He thereupon opened the door, received and entertained me with all the hospitality his poverty would admit of; regaled me with sour crout and some new laid eggs, the only provision he had, and clean straw with a kind of rug for a bed, he having no other for himself and wife.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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A huge range of activities are on offer from horse riding to archery to golf to keep people entertained.
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An hour later, I came away happy and entertained, but with only the most impressionistic idea of how the wheels in Dionne's creative mind turn.
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She had not known or expected and conditions other than those she was familiar with -- the conditions of being fed and clothed, kept clean and exercised, but totally unloved and unentertained.
The Head of the House of Coombe
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Either way, the average joe looking to be entertained is reamed.
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Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained?
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Red Cow never saw Marcus O'Brien again, and though many conjectures were entertained, no certain clew was ever gained to dispel the mystery of his passing.
The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
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The Moreton children entertained their hosts with wartime songs, including Run, Rabbit, Run and the Dad's Army theme song Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?
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Then he entertained them to refreshments and a game of croquet on the lush lawn.
The Sun
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A man playing the accordion entertained us as we noshed on a bacon sandwich and a butter tart on a bench by the water.
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Both have entertained, amused and mirrored life and the fantasy of life for millions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company's guests at Ascot are entertained in the corporate hospitality area.
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You will enjoy some light-hearted evenings being royally entertained aboard your sleek and comfortable home-from-home.
The Sun
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She entertained the children with stories, songs and drama.
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Who entertained whom and what the food and conversation were like were matters of absorbing interest.
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In this version, the lord of the manor is to be entertained by the local people's staging of The Marriage of Figaro in the garden of his mansion.
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Readers like to be entertained and good entertainment requires conflict.
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For parents, it is an easy way of keeping their children entertained, or simply out of harm's way.
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She entertained lavishly for her husband at Mentmore, at Landsdowne House and at the London home in Berkeley Square which Rosebery bought in 1885.
Rothschild, Hannah de, Countess of Rosebery.
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Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas.
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The crowned heads of Europe - kings, emperors, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.
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For 20 years, "those girls on horses" have entertained crowds at the Greeley Stampede.
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It is a slumber, too, unterrified, unentertained by dreams.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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After that he entertained the fans to batting of the highest class, with quality strokes to all parts of the ground.
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The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
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Thankfully, Super Mario Galaxy 2 retains the polish and kept me highly entertained from the short bouts of playtime given at the Nintendo Media Summit.
Cubed3.com News
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In the beginning, as the largest in the township, his house had probably served as stopping-place for all travellers, where they were entertained merely as a matter of courtesy, though an “inholder” or
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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Visitors can also enjoy mulled wine and hot mince pies while being entertained by carol singers.
The Sun
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This time round, Doc and the All Stars entertained the audience with a full quartet of drums, clarinet, keyboards and trumpet with some classic ragtime sounds and upbeat Dixieland.
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While the Queen's Division Normandy Band entertained and recruiting teams from regiments across the region answered questions, there was the chance to enjoy various activities from climbing to paintballing.
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As a local burlesque troupe entertained the crowd by staging a mock pillow fight, they were shocked when women from the audience came forward looking to join the battle.
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But the 47-year-old singer and guitarist says he never even entertained the idea of reconnecting with drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang before starting his current tour, in which he plays nothing but Galaxie 500 songs he plays Saturday at the Fillmore.
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The Cwmbach Male Voice Choir entertained with a traditional repertoire of Welsh hymns, spirituals and songs from opera and the shows.
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People who come to see my solo shows have come to be entertained by the fact that I like ranting against erroneous belief systems.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has to be an element of peril to keep the audience entertained.
The Sun
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Claims for injury or loss sustained as a result of the civil disturbances will not be entertained.
Times, Sunday Times
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The butler testified about a string of women being entertained by the duke at the house.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore have I chosen, in this prolegomenon, to unload my burden of thanks at thy feet, for the favour with which thou last kindly entertained the
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Even the most puritanical, old-style theorist, or the most modishly self-conscious, context-seeking musicologist will be hugely entertained, as well as enlightened, by this book.
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And down here he entertained himself - torturing his prisoners in the dungeons.
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Messrs. Chapman and Hall entertained the idea favourably, but opined that the plates would require illustrative letter-press; and casting about for some suitable author, bethought themselves of Dickens, whose tales and sketches had been exciting some little sensation in the world of journalism; and who had, indeed, already written for the firm a story, the “Tuggs at Ramsgate,” which may be read among the “Sketches.”
Life of Charles Dickens
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Moreover, she has to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals and employment figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visitors can also enjoy mulled wine and hot mince pies while being entertained by carol singers.
The Sun
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It was amazing to observe how she entertained the children, who ranged in age from three to ten years old.
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Matthew was mightily entertained, and almost forgot his own troubles while laughing at his cousins.
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He was thoroughly entertained by a grotesque comedy that satirized a group of celebrities.
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Visitors were also entertained by a quintet of musicians from the Bolton School of Music.
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With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them.
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Beginning in the 1840s, these works entertained the lower and middle classes in Great Britain and the United States by making fun of (or "burlesquing") the operas, plays and social habits of the upper classes.
Examiner California Headlines
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He entertained in fact far-reaching plans to build an advanced high-tech fence along the future borderline in order to separate effectively the two populations from each other.
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The chagan, the peculiar title of their king, still affected to cultivate the friendship of the emperor; and Justinian entertained some thoughts of fixing them in Pannonia, to balance the prevailing power of the Lombards.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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During the voyage you will meet the captain, Commander Paul Porter, be entertained by the officers and crew, and given a full tour of HMS York.
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He aims next at the construction of a men's clubhouse in which his male followers can lounge about and in which guests can be entertained and fed.
Cultural Anthropology
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This is especially the case in those countries in Europe, particularly on the Continent, where the idea above referred to, of the allowableness of falsehood in certain cases as a means for the attainment of a good end, is generally entertained.
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
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He entertained the notion of moving to South America
