"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 • ...
  • I asked him if he had entertained visions of becoming a professional athlete himself.
  • But Moya, who entertained visions of Agassi's straight-set demise once he had gone up, 6-4, 4-1, dribbled his shot into the net.
  • Chekov entertained visions of closing off accessways and bulkheads based on the computer's reports, confining groups of cadets for later disposition.
  • The President said that he did not entertain utopian visions of creating racial comity in Bosnia.
  • I asked, allowing myself to entertain macabre visions of mutilated cat corpses.
  • Carausius began to entertain visions of legitimacy and official recognition.
  • He entertained momentary, panic-stricken visions of Bergitta having thrown a blood clot from that beating or something else equally life threatening.
  • And for golfers, it's a place to entertain visions of warm weather and under-par scores on the local golf courses.
  • Jeremy entertained visions of the old man stockpiling interoffice envelopes and other hospital supplies in his musty old Victorian house.
  • Spray from the breakers bounced off the windscreen; he entertained visions of an errant seagull plowing through the Plexiglas like a cannon shell.
(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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