How to Use pastime in a Sentence

pastime

noun

• Baseball has been a national pastime for years.
• The right move will pave the way to new beginnings, relationships and pastimes.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
• Or, gift it as-is for a fun pastime between handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.
  — Kaitlin Madden, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2022
• The cherished pastime of critiquing celebrities’ red-carpet looks meets a new wrinkle.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• Passing horses down the stretch is apparently his favorite pastime.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2022
• Such lighter tweeds are common on properties bordering water and where angling is a frequent pastime.
  — Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2024
• Bill Maher is looking to a good old-fashioned American pastime to help heal the nation.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
• Once upon a time, before everyone in the house had a high-tech gadget (or two, or three) in their pockets, family board games were a treasured pastime.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 16 May 2022
• Ballplayers are easier to quantify, and in Gedeon’s era, the game was truly the national pastime.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
• The Magnolia Table star wrote about a pastime that's taught her to embrace her playful side this year — her new hobby of roller skating.
  — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
• With very few means of gainful employment or in-town entertainment, painting was both a popular pastime and a potential source of income.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• The players were immigrants or the sons of immigrants, playing a game that was considered a national pastime in the old country but little more than a waste of time in the new one.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
• The thrill of the pastime has always been this gamble: No one knows what’s inside the box.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• How the Dodgers made beach balls at the ballpark the new national pastime.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• While Wyatt enjoys the pastime, his true passion is on the ice.
  — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• Talking turkey is a pastime in the halls of government around the world.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• But ham radio might turn out to be more than just a pleasant pastime.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• In the 1800s, those who could take advantage of leisure pastimes were wealthy and mainly white.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
• The ancient pastime had saved his life, Steiner told Willams.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• Well, if nothing else, be the national pastime on the days the NFL isn’t playing.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• Shanahan’s favorite pastime is finding ways to put the ball in Samuel’s hands.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the flashy beetle — and the pastime of catching them — that once was so commonplace may become a thing of the past.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• News that one of her pastimes is looking through GoFundMe pages at night.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• Dining out is of course one of the UAE’s favorite pastimes, and there are plenty of options here.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• All along the way, father threw batting practice to son, a pastime that reached its zenith three hours north of their home.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
• Knitting is supposed to be a calm and peaceful pastime.
  — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• For Tinashe, seeing drag queens perform to her songs is one of her favorite pastimes.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 21 June 2023
• Obsessing over needle drops on buzzy shows has become a fun pastime in the era of peak TV.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 June 2022
• For The Times) 6/7 Hart plays poker in Vegas; gambling is one of his favorite pastimes.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• After decades of hand-wringing about the gloomy state of the national pastime, the league has tried to make the game faster, crisper, more highlight-friendly.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024