leisure
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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
"We've got some incredible public leisure facilities, just not enough of them," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But leisure and hospitality—also highly immigrant-dependent—shed 40,000 jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The lack of new labor supply could be contributing to a shortage of labor, at least in some industries such as leisure and hospitality.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the rare moments of leisure Blanca had to think about herself and her daughter, she regretted that her child was so silent and solitary, and that she had no playmates her own age.
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
He read and rehearsed his reading in memory, but he did not give himself to “deep, abstract meditation” and did not surrender himself to “the fruitful leisures of the spirit.”
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
Among the many that mine eyes have seen, Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed, Or my affection put to th' smallest teen, Or any of my leisures ever charmed.
From A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
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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