Example sentences for: pleasure

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

  • If we annoy him, the annoyance must be somehow necessary to his pleasure, the rising of it sweeterfor the last tug of a defeated gravity--as feeblenow, as faraway, as being anybody's son or father.For he seems all gaze, nudging a dollar toward her.

  • You'll be floating contentedly along in Klein's pleasant, foamy prose--"the gorgeous display of her colossal adiposity, her thundering, moonfaced, creviced posterior, evokes a vastly delicious, (sub)lunar landscape in which an explorer could lose himself in pleasure forever.

  • Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.

  • He may be taking some pleasure in the possible recent discomfiture of the previously appropriately named Farmer Veale , in the wake of the campaign against live calf exports from the United Kingdom.

  • It now looks out towards the pleasure palaces of Paradise Island.


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