leisure
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How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
He added: "All I will say to you is what happens next: let's all meet for part two of the Clacton by-election coming soon to a leisure centre near you."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
He is dipping into his savings and has cut back on expenses such as travel and leisure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
For the first time in his life he was able to observe her at his leisure.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
“In those days, there weren’t video games or these other leisures kids have nowadays,” Gerard said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
To meet the change, Davis sold 100 theaters, wisely followed his customers into new leisures.
From Time Magazine Archive
You would not hear me, At many leisures I propos'd.
From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
The long leisures, the introspective habits, the vita contemplativa so conspicuous in the old Catholic discipline, grow very rare.
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
Vocabulary lists containing leisure
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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