Example sentences for: pursuits

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

  • Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits.

  • Some authorities advise that travellers engaged in high-risk leisure pursuits, such as mountain climbing, should not use mefloquine.

  • 38 Increasingly, a department store must be successful at both pursuits.

  • It must be said that the days when every schoolchild was (at least) exposed to classical mythology and the Great Books have been superseded by an obsession with education applicable only to commercial pursuits, the syndrome reflected in, Why do I have to study Chaucer and Shakespeare to become a car mechanic or an astronaut?

  • They feed their resultant emptiness with manic, life-threatening, competitive pursuits that become substitutes for their sense of self worth.


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