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
These, fortunately, are supplemented by the eager alertness essential to the discovery and capture of game well worth the effort, and by the recreative and self-satisfying complacency of more or less skillful shooting.
From Fishing and Shooting Sketches by Cleveland, Grover
Finally, to the services just above described the public library has added another: the supply of books for proposes purely recreative.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
The legislation proposed and executed was restrictive, not recreative.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Betts, Lillian William
