leisure
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How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● 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
"We've got some incredible public leisure facilities, just not enough of them," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But leisure and hospitality employers cut 40,000 workers, while retailers shed more than 19,000 employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fresh plaster does not allow for this leisure: he has to paint while the plaster is still wet.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
“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
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
Wolfe's dreary garrison leisures in Scotland, however, were not idle.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
She took no serious interest except in the happiness, the imponderous riches, the innocent and perfect beauties, the sweet leisures, the glories and the arts of peace.
From The Wrack of the Storm by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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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