recreative
Example Sentences
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The most fruitful road to Joseph seems to be, as the Rev. Edington noted, one combining "good, serious Bible study and some recreative imagination."
From Time Magazine Archive
His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond.
From Time Magazine Archive
They represent all the educational and recreative opportunity of most of the adults.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
But I see, now, they were only recreative little sylphs, amusing themselves with whipping and spurring me on to my own good!'
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
A few of them will love to read the best, many of them will want information at intervals, a large proportion want recreative reading, and the vast majority use the library not at all.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
