Example sentences for: pastime

How can you use “pastime” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If the phrase "soccer moms" has rapidly become part of the political lexicon, it may be because it is cleverly positioned at the intersection of several different trends--the rise of soccer as a middle-class pastime, the demanding lives of working women, the diversification of the suburbs, the popularity of the Dodge Caravan, and so on.

  • Saussy III does not know what hysteresis means and missed Pynchon's metaphor by a mile; horripilating does not mean `shuddering' (though the rest of the definition is correct); houghmagandy is defined as `fucking as a pastime,' the last three words of which make in inaccurate; the usual spelling of gallimaufrey is without the e; gibbous , usually applied to the three-quarter moon, is here defined as “hump-backed, arched” with the citation, “..

  • You can experience America’s favorite summer pastime by grabbing a hot dog and a beer and rooting for the Dodgers baseball team at Dodger Stadium, just north of Downtown in Chavez Ravine.

  • (Why not try ?) But reflecting on human nature doesn't seem to be a common pastime at the Pentagon.

  • Murray Abraham) are ugly bleeders with the kind of puffy-muslin skin you see on third-degree burn victims; their favorite pastime is having their dermal layers stretched and their skulls reupholstered.


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