How to Use hedonist in a Sentence

hedonist

noun

• Helou is both scholar and hedonist, which makes for the best kind of guide in the kitchen.
  — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 2 Apr. 2018
• Back in the day, punks and hedonists did not rub shoulders.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• In this new work, set in and around a mud pit, a young aesthete tries to persuade his grubby hedonists to de-ooze.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Reid plays the 150-year-old as a refined hedonist, less a creature of the night than a Eurotrash Ken Doll.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• In the 1890s, the women shared Gabriele d’Annunzio, the soldier, rogue, hedonist and symbolist poet.
  — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Be a night owl For many, Berlin’s legendary party scene is the holy grail for hedonists everywhere.
  — National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
• Kit is a bit more of a hedonist, with plenty of casual hookups under his belt and weed on his nightstand.
  — Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• In broad terms, a hedonist is someone who tries to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.
  — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• As the words suggest, present hedonists live in the moment, without much thought of any consequences of their actions or of the future.
  — Dr. Lance Dodes, Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2017
• Two hedonists with a penchant for Jim Beam and bad decisions.
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 19 May 2017
• Because that mind-reading trick is handy and though Lestat may be a hedonist, Louis sees a bigger picture.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Within the first six weeks, Joan proved not only to be a lusty eater but a very social and cuddly baby who loved long warm baths, in other words, a hedonist in the making.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Among the decadent fresh pastas, a hefty rigatoni is a hedonist’s delight, studded with guanciale batons fried to a crunch, the fat coating each ridged tube.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Affleck, with blond hair and a goatee, plays d’Alencon, an insensitive hedonist, with something close to glee.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Whether the recipient is practical and all about ease or a hedonist and a lover of the finer things, these spectacular stocking stuffers are fool-proof.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2022
• To compare Isa and Dorothy might, at first, seem like a false equivalence—what do an academic in her thirties and a 21-year old hedonist really have in common?
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2021
• Like a lot of his clients, the chef, Cliff Grubin, used to be a hedonist but has since swapped self-destruction for self-care, specializing first in juicing and eventually branching out into raw food.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• The musician and actor were forced to abandon their campsite by foot as torrential rains turned the Nevada desert, which hosts the annual hedonists’ festival, into a mud bath.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• Madison’s other best friend from college, free spirit, and charming hedonist.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 11 Apr. 2019
• The historic cafés that served a generation of true hedonists have succumbed to the vigilance of federal prohibition agents.
  — Lillian Symes, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• His Bill isn’t a fratty hedonist so much as a man too psychologically compartmentalized to face his own misdeeds.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
• Ahmed is referring to the era in Tangier's history, beginning in the interwar period and peaking in the 1950s, when the city served as a licentious playground for a motley assortment of artists, socialites, and hedonists.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• Resorts along the Strip and beyond aim to attract the next generation of hedonists — millennials, and the likeminded — keen on technology, contemporary art, food and the outdoors.
  — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Because, her letters show a complicated, deep, emotional person–not just a hedonist.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
• Liberation and pleasure have always gone hand in hand for Miguel, a career hedonist in the vein of Prince who similarly envisions eroticism as an idyllic escape, both spiritual and literal.
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• One of the most colorful entrepreneurs in history, McAfee was a true software pioneer, a notorious hedonist, a possible murderer, a fugitive, a U.S. presidential candidate and, inevitably, a cryptocurrency promoter.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 June 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024