pleasures

Example Sentences

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Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

He immediately asked for my email address and said he would invite my wife Debs and I to enjoy all the pleasures that city could and would provide.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“You’ve got to take the simple pleasures while you can, and cooking is that for me.”

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Yet for Mr. Haskell they afford pleasures like little else in life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Turner played hymn after hymn, repeating a few verses when she hummed to the chorus, taking care to avoid the ones that suggested the pleasures of leaving this weary world.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt