How to Use leisure in a Sentence

leisure

noun
  • I don't have much time for leisure.
  • But everyone knows that most pickups actually live a life of leisure.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
  • That 'revenge spending' on travel and leisure has been carrying the economy.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • Even as some sectors pull back on hiring, industries like leisure and hospitality are struggling to staff up.
    Kathryn Dill and Jemal R. Brinson, WSJ, 12 July 2022
  • The June jobs gains were led by growth in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
  • Our intermediate ends might be a good diet, education, a certain amount of leisure, health — the benefits of wealth.
    David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • Their leisure, like a monastery’s, was ruled by the clock.
    Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Then, roll out and shape the turnovers at your leisure.
    Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2018
  • Guests at the party pull the tee shirts out and smell at their leisure.
    Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 24 July 2014
  • Make the sauce once, stick it in your fridge, and use it over the next few weeks at your leisure.
    Deena Shanker, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • And a new shade of leisure for Huntsville’s downtown-ish area.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 10 June 2022
  • Guests are free to use the fire pits and swimming hole at their leisure.
    Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Subscribers pay a fee and use the service at their leisure.
    Greg Moore, azcentral, 12 May 2018
  • To register for the leisure paddle, go to ohioriverpaddlefest.org/registration.
    Taylor Burnette, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Buy it for yourself and leave it on the top of the book stack so guests can flip through at their leisure.
    Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Exit the rink at your leisure, trade in your skates, and get to lip smacking.
    Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Hop aboard a ferry and hop off at any of the five villages at your leisure.
    Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The rest of us may find the play’s leisure in getting there frustrating.
    Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Pulling up the rear were auto, banks, travel and leisure and tech stocks.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Two paddle boats are available at the beach and free for guests to use at their leisure.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Summer is a season of fun, restoration, and for many, a time of leisure.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 26 July 2022
  • So workers need to make the most of their limited leisure time.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Some opt to break from their hike and wait out the snowmelt elsewhere, then return at their leisure.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In most of the countries singled out, few people have the means for leisure travel.
    Seventeen, 30 June 2017
  • Being able to sleep in your own bed to avoid sickness and drive yourself to and from the venue at your leisure helps.
    Holly Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • That has kept me from becoming a jerk with a yacht or a person of leisure.
    Michael Roberts, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2021
  • At about a mile long, the bridge is open for pedestrians and bike riders to cross at their leisure.
    Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
  • In most of the countries singled out, few people have the means for leisure travel.
    Washington Post, 30 June 2017
  • In the frenzy of a presidential campaign, these Vegas vows on tax policy make political sense, especially given battleground state Nevada’s large number of employees in the hospitality and leisure industry.
    Steve Rosenthal, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • And hiring was not evenly distributed — concentrated instead in construction, health care, leisure and hospitality, and government jobs.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024

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