"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 • ...
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 • ...
(1) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
5. briefly entertain = pokrótce zabaw briefly entertain
  • He added: "I briefly entertained the idea of being a fireman.
  • Byron briefly entertained fantasies of becoming a Whig leader.
  • He briefly entertained an offer from an upstate newspaper.
  • He briefly entertains the notion that the two phenomena might be related, and should perhaps have pondered this question more closely.
  • He even briefly entertains the idea that morality could itself be a scientific subject, writing that one might argue ".
  • Gauging the distance between them, he briefly entertained the idea of a move, before dismissing it as foolish.
  • Indeed in 1964 it briefly entertained hopes that Labour might prove more helpful over nuclear policy than the preceding government.
  • A time or two she'd briefly entertained the outrageous thought that he might not be human.
  • He had never even briefly entertained the thought of being anything but a priest.
  • An unprecedented tightness seized his chest, so intense he briefly entertained the notion that he might be having a heart attack.
7. well entertain = dobrze zabaw well entertain
8. royally entertained = po królewsku zabawiony royally entertained
(3) privately, publicly
Kolokacji: 2

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