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

In 1974, Time magazine called Lilias Folan “the Julia Child of yoga”—an irresisitably cheerful ambassador, bringing the pleasures of a foreign culture to mainstream America via public TV.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Blanca led the idle life that was her true vocation, while her husband gave himself to those small pleasures that only money can buy and that he had denied himself for such a long time.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende