"entertain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

entertain verbo

entertain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 40
entertain guests • entertain audiences • entertain friends • entertain hopes • entertain the idea • entertain children • ...
  • At this period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright.
  • But Jansen, as he said, did not mean to be a school-pedant all his life; and there were moments when he entertained political ambitions.
  • Both Mr. Primakov and Mr. Luzhkov clearly entertain presidential ambitions.
  • Mithridates entertained ambitions of making his state the dominant power in the Black Sea and Anatolia.
  • During the early 12th-century ascendancy of the Hoysalas, the kings of the dynasty entertained imperial ambitions.
  • Whether Juliana entertained political ambitions of her own is uncertain, but it is known that her husband declined to take up the crown during the 512 riots.
  • And it was obvious to everyone but her that the one called Silent entertained romantic ambitions.
  • He entertained Presidential ambitions long before and even after his unsuccessful Whig candidacy in 1852.
  • The year 1812 also seems to have been the last in which Hazlitt entertained serious ambitions to make a living as a painter.
  • The official added the search for a prime minister of Iraq was guided by the principal that whoever was chosen should not entertain political ambitions of his own.
(5) visitor, tourist
Kolokacji: 2
(6) doubt, question
Kolokacji: 2
(7) troop, crowd, man, soldier
Kolokacji: 4
(8) offer, proposal, bid
Kolokacji: 3
(9) millions, thousands
Kolokacji: 2
entertain + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
entertain at • entertain with • entertain on • entertain in • entertain for • ...
entertain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 14
frequently entertain • entertain lavishly • seriously entertain • once entertain • regularly entertain • ...

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