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

The butcher boy enjoys Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: why should he disbelieve my statement that others get pleasure from a performance of a Hedda Gabler, which would hardly appeal to him?

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham