leisure
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Residents were moved to a nearby leisure centre following the fire at Hazlewood Road, Newbridge in Caerphilly county on Wednesday afternoon.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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
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
With my mother’s eyes I’d see my hostess’s manicured nails and judge them to be marks of her leisure.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
“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
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
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
There lie the tears and the sighs of lovers, the hours lost in pastimes, the leisures of the dull, and the intentions of the lazy.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
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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