pleasures
Example Sentences
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This kind of familiarity is one of the pleasures of becoming a regular somewhere: over time, without really deciding to, two people accumulate small pieces of information about each other.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
What is strange is the air of grim discovery around it, as though the pleasures of cooking with recognizable ingredients had only recently been recovered from a hostile laboratory.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Most people were eager to share their own experiences: the pains and the pleasures of aging, what they look forward to and reflect back upon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
How many long years he had spent without any lofty goal, without any thirst, without any exaltation, Content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
