pleasurable

Example Sentences

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His “more real” is frustrating, pleasurable, terrifying, exalting, and as familiar as our own peculiar families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

We must behave in a manner that is pleasurable and inoffensive to them, in a manner that aligns with the characters on their favorite television show.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026

Endorphins are the brain's "happy chemicals" and are released both to reduce stress and pain and in response to pleasurable experiences, such as laughing with friends over a truly terrible Christmas cracker joke.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

To play somebody like that, and to allow myself to be blind to the feeling of consequence and to just shoot like a rocket, that was incredibly freeing and pleasurable.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas