How to Use avocation in a Sentence

avocation

noun

• He breeds dogs as an avocation.
• My favorite avocation is reading.
• What had been an avocation to while away the hours became a lifeline.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Vice was Monaco’s true draw, no longer just a sport of the idle rich, but an aspirational avocation for the middle class.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Though the cover was health, vice was the true draw, no longer just a sport of the idle rich, but an aspirational avocation for ambitious men of the middle class.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Some of these half-dozen machines lean toward grand touring as a prime avocation.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
• More than ever she is drawn to her work, both vocation and avocation.
  — David Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• Romance is promising, and a new avocation brings hours of pleasure.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2020
• Football isn’t just a fall sport to these guys, not just an avocation to put on college applications.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• When able, the obvious and best approach is to spend more energy and time engaged with one’s calling, whether through a job or as an avocation.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
• The wife’s parents are deer, a grandfather is a fox, and leaping trout, rods, and creels suggest the family’s avocation of fly-fishing.
  — Jorge Arango, House Beautiful, 22 May 2019
• When the family moved to Marshfield, boats and boating became father and son’s avocation.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• Peggy Atkins, who has been an avid gardener for many years, still taps into her avocation on her Lutherville townhouse patio.
  — Nelson Coffin, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• Nadeem and Saud’s pursuit is a noble one, inspired by their late mother, but as a character study, All That Breathes shows the toll that this all-consuming avocation has taken on them.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2022
• Art acted as a teenager and resumed his drama avocation as their children grew older.
  — M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 25 June 2017
• Infiltrating the Arts In many Western countries, theater is an avocation for elites.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• Benson earns his living as a salesman for an employment screening firm, but hunting is his avocation.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• Finally, the chance to learn something new from a person with love and passion for her vocation and avocation is what community and recovery is all about.
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• While her profession is acting, her avocation always has been art -- as a patron, a collector, a former gallery owner and co-founder with her late husband of the Musee Boribana in Dakar, Senegal.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Bill was active in local politics and enjoyed his major avocation, the fire service.
  — courant.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The couple had a lucrative avocation: finding young artists destined for greatness.
  — Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
• To help prepare them, the ball’s year-long Mentor Program matches each girl with a past deb who has attended the same college or university and shares an interest in the same profession or avocation.
  — Joanne Davidson, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• Brothers Ben and Justin Cumming of Lunenburg also have a family connection to thank for their fishing avocation.
  — Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• John Freeman, one of the engineers of the new reservoir system, used to say that engineering was his avocation, insurance his vocation.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• In 1998, her avocation became her profession by dint of a bad (self-administered) haircut.
  — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2017
• When the coronavirus pandemic hit hard and restaurants were shut down, waiter Julio Alvarado’s micro farming went from avocation to vocation in a matter of four months.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• What had been a hobby, a pleasant avocation, became something more serious.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• Now Mitchell-Delmotte, 39, a singer/songwriter by avocation, is giving back in an unusual way — by releasing an album.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
• Speechwriting is more a profession than an avocation now.
  — Michael Kazin, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024