We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.    From LearnThat.org.  [Evelyn Waugh]

I'd like a little sorbetto made of brain amuse-bouche, amuse-bouche, he will peel you like a mango.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian Radioactivity] Reference

Carla Hall Lyons who "amuse" - bouched us with her lovingly prepared culinary creations and hilarious quips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference

"I suppose you will want to, what you call amuse yourself, to see the beasts at Exeter Change, and the playhouses.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire] Reference

I love the idea of amuse bouche through out the meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Pamphlet] Reference

The amuse was a cucumber with an amazing swirl of what I think was minted cream on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chef's 7-Course Tasting Menu at Vermilion] Reference

I am not objecting to the amusement; only to cease to educate in order to amuse is to degenerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

The amuse is a pâté of arctic char which is smokey, savory, and fishy, served with crispy, slightly bitter parsnip chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Eats: New York] Reference

But 'amuse' is an apt word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century] Reference

Our "amuse" was croquetas as light as anything I've had made with potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augieland:] Reference

I think my best efforts to kind of amuse her, well, they fall flat with a lot of people, don't they?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Simon's Family: 'In Praise Of Adoption'] Reference

So -- and I-- and I-- I-- I think I kind of amuse myself by keeping everybody wondering, ` Where does he stand in all this? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell Me A Story: 50 years and 60 Minutes in Television] Reference

I've been using this anecdote to 'amuse' my civilian friends for years!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

Does it kind of amuse you to be able to surprise people the way you have been?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Our pastor back home in Texas has spoken before of the literal definition of "amuse".    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Home] Reference

(It was a kind of amuse-bouche for a main course of strangulation in Of Mice and Men.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jezebel] Reference

I think this article must fall into the "amuse" category, because it certainly doesn't educate, and will most certainly not enrich anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.com: The Motley Fool] Reference

Foreign movie titles amuse me for some reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orange/Blue Contrast in Movie Posters | /Film] Reference

"amuse" it, as many persons imagine they are doing by this device.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference

We go to the opery Saturday nights and kind of amuse ourselves Sundays. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scattergood Baines] Reference

(Author's note: those things that "amuse" me are in no way funny. .just amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enemies of Progress] Reference

"Suppose Angela knew that you wished to 'amuse' me in that particularly unamusing way?" she went on, "You -- who, to her, are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Christian] Reference

Were his buffoonery not so bitter, it would amuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Somerville: Mother Teresa's Centenary Birthday Bash: Why I'm Against It] Reference

It is also one in which the people can amuse themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

Yet for all its treats, this show is only an amuse bouche.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Storehouse of Riches] Reference

Sometimes I spoke in malaprops myself in an effort to amuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasonal Discord] Reference

Mr. WAINWRIGHT: Yeah, All I have to give is a talent to amuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wainwright to Channel Judy Garland, Live] Reference

Stunts to amuse and attract voters are to be expected of both men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot vs. The Preacher] Reference

It didn't amuse her, as it could have, which meant she still cared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stream of Unconsciousness] Reference

  When they brought her pictures or thought up stories to amuse her.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Stepmother Wanted to Say] Reference

 She could even amuse herself and take pride in her small achievements.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANNIES CHASE] Reference

And I like to give something that will amuse them or interest them to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliott Carter at 100: A Trio of Tributes] Reference

Ascue's story might amuse people who don't snore or have bed partners who do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds Of Sleep] Reference

SIMON: That's the song in which the Noel Coward lyric is, All I have to give is a talent to amuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wainwright to Channel Judy Garland, Live] Reference

In another time, the braggadocio of the man who likes to be called Il Cavaliere (The Knight) might amuse his neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight Errant] Reference

And so does the movie's modest desire to amuse us with a deliberately contrived tale of well-to-do folks falling in and out of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing Chic To Chic] Reference