pleasure

And so the old feeling is gone, another species of tactile pleasure made extinct by technological improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Ms Meek said it was a pleasure to hear what Sam had gone on to achieve in his life.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

On my boat, a packed, three-deck pleasure cruise otherwise populated by swimsuit-clad tourists and screaming infants, the story was much the same.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Aug. 28 from the driver of a 30-foot pleasure craft 88 miles off of Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Leaving for a secret visit and returning undetected might have been a thrill and a pleasure.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

My husband enjoyed humble pleasures, and he had two favorite fast-casual restaurants where the food was good, the patrons were kind, and the staff were simply salt-of-the-earth people.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Reviews so far have been mixed, with the Guardian describing it as a "nostalgia-bait return", external which is as "strange and messy as the first" but with "warm seasonal pleasures to be had".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

One of the pleasures of the Yale exhibition is to see how gorgeous Smith’s vintage prints are, so much more beautiful than magazine or online reproductions of the same images.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“One of the great pleasures I have is walking into Dodger Stadium. It’s like I feel at peace,” Rob Reiner once said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Fortunately, though taunting was one of Seabiscuit’s greatest pleasures, once he was challenged, the games ended.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Mayor Bill de Blasio let out a pleasured tweet of thanks, saluting the State Senate’s co-leaders, the Democrat Klein and that noted progressive, the Republican Dean Skelos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014

The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as it is with human Obligations, when we have served our own Turns: After this has pleasured our Eyes, it washes our Kitchen, and passes through the Sink into the common Shore.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.

From Fox News ● Nov. 9, 2020

They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011

In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was as eager and delighted as if she were bent on a day's pleasuring.

From The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett