get pleasure from

Example Sentences

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They are rich fodder for viewers who get pleasure from parsing the believability of true-crime interviews.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

“On one hand, viewers can congratulate themselves — they can say, ‘I’m above this,’ but on the other hand, they get pleasure from engaging in this topic of everyday life,” he says.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2023

Still, one can get pleasure from reading him in much the same way one enjoys the cognitive frisson of a thought experiment.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2019

A study co-authored by Ryan T. Howell of San Francisco State University found that people fail to get pleasure from objects or experiences if they’re acquiring them mainly for bragging rights.

From Time • Aug. 7, 2017

He may of course get pleasure from the sound of the story apart from its meaning much earlier.

From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem