Example sentences for: pleasures

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

  • In any case, he praises the value of the intellectual and aesthetic pleasures in which an old man can still indulge.

  • The recreational pleasures that ordinary islanders enjoy have become synonymous with the name Jamaica: dancing to the heavily rhythmic musical beat; taking a little marijuana (or “ganja,” as it’s known here), which many Jamaicans view as a kind of medicinal herb; or simply sitting back and chatting with friends on a bench or street corner, where the situation is described as “Irie” — the equivalent of “Everything’s just fine! ”

  • Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions.

  • Zihuatanejo became popular among beachcombers from abroad because it had what they wanted: a sparkling bay divided into intimate stretches of sand by outcroppings of rock and wooded knolls, plus simple pleasures that included swimming, sunning, and the freshest of fruit and seafood.

  • It's impossible to read his book, with its righteous denunciations of "tawdry voyeurism," and think his main complaint with the coverage of Clinton's sex life is that it wasn't forthright enough about the pleasures of disclosing the "private lives of public people."


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