Example sentences for: pleasant

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

  • Just inside the woods is a pleasant picnic area beside the “natural bridge,” a massive slab of rock through which the swift waters of the Kicking Horse River have forced a channel.

  • Pleasant Run Children's Homes began serving children nearly 130 years ago.

  • I had a pleasant conversation with him and his wife.

  • Critics bemoan the absence of songs in this latest film depiction of the romance between British widow Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut of Siam, familiar to most viewers through the musical The King and I . Critics contend that leads Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat have weak chemistry and that the film is "a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth … pleasant, occasionally amusing--and often dull" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). Roger Ebert gives a surprisingly harsh review: "It is an exotic escapist entertainment for matinee ladies, who can fantasize about sex with that intriguing bald monster and indulge their harem fantasies" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Jay Carr of the Boston Globe dissents from the pack, calling the film "a lot more than The King and I minus Rodgers's and Hammerstein's music.

  • Highlights include an Indian-style Shaka triad; the Yumechigae (“Dream Changing”) Kannon, said to transform its worshippers’ nightmares into pleasant dreams; and the Kudara Kannon, a graceful, willowy statue named after a region in Korea, whose designer and creator was almost certainly Korean.


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