How to Use pleasure in a Sentence

pleasure

noun

• I paint for the sheer pleasure of it.
• It is a special pleasure for me to be here with you today.
• Is this trip for business or pleasure?
• Now I can enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like spending time with my family.
• His grandparents took great pleasure in seeing him graduate from college.
• Not that the other stops along the way lacked for pleasure.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2023
• For me, the pleasure was entirely in the process, not the product.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Is there not pleasure in the slow burn, in the grind to victory?
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• But what a pleasure the reading of it turned out to be!
  — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• But as with any of life’s great pleasures, there are choices to be made.
  — Linda Gassenheimer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Behind the scenes, the Clippers have made clear their pleasure that Lue is their coach.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Eating cheese, for many, is one of life’s great pleasures.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• If this brought her pleasure, there wouldn’t be a problem.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Taurus is ruled by Venus, known as the goddess of pleasure.
  — Women's Health, 14 May 2023
• For Giorgi, the pleasure of the project lies in its Edenic innocence.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the post, Trump expressed his pleasure with Ramaswamy.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• Being surprised by people is one of the great pleasures and great pains of life.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2023
• For all of your styling pleasure, both for end-of-summer and cold-weather looks, shop the 20 best slouchy boots on the market ahead.
  — Cortne Bonilla, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2023
• Your sense of humor and gracious nature was a pleasure to be a round.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2023
• Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• Aesthetic pleasure glints at the jagged angles of the fragment.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• Much of the pleasure of Rap Sh!t is simply how well KaMillion connects with the camera.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• But the main point has been about trying to show the short span between ecstatic pleasure and shame.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• For the most hardcore of Callas fans, this set will provide hours of discovery and pleasure.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• There’s more: These four new memoirs invite us to sit with the pleasures and pains of family.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• People would come there to enjoy the sensual pleasures of food and flesh.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 May 2023
• But that’s where all the pleasure lies: on a construction like that and the care of it and the accuracy of it and the delicacy of it and the power of it.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The pleasures of poetry, meanwhile, are so rooted in the abstract and ephemeral that not getting the point can be the point.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Yet even the pleasure of the concert scenes remains scattershot.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• But oh, the lightness and pleasure of Lily and Ruth, their keen companionship over tea and toast, quick trips to the seaside, plimsolls by the door.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024