How to Use pastime in a Sentence

pastime

noun

• Baseball has been a national pastime for years.
• 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
• 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
• The ancient pastime had saved his life, Steiner told Willams.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• Shanahan’s favorite pastime is finding ways to put the ball in Samuel’s hands.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• As with any pastime a parent hopes to pass down, though, this one is yielding mixed results.
  — Yewande Komolafe, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Little did the jumpers know that their playful prank would inspire a popular pastime around the world.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Cycling has been a favorite pastime for people around the globe since the 19th century.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
• Back home in Britain, talking about the weather is a national pastime.
  — Mike Welch, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Growing up, detective movies and TV shows set in Hong Kong were a post-dinner pastime at my aunt’s house.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
• But soon, fans would have a reason to return to America’s pastime.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Sargsyan was part of a great tradition of tennis gamblers, a pastime nearly as old as the sport itself.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Any baseball fan knows that music and the great American pastime overlap a bit.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Pressed for other pastimes, Lyonne removes her black baseball cap, runs her hands through her red haystack of hair and laughs.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Neither of his kids shared his love for America’s pastime.
  — Steven Leckart, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• The idea behind this image was that maybe Cokie had over-indulged in her favorite pastime.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
• Pilots are taking a beloved outdoor pastime to new heights.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• Her favorite pastime is going on long walks along the trail, sniffing out new scents with her curious nose.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• All that, and the chance to gamble, made horse racing the era’s most popular sporting pastime and the owning and breeding of horses a mark of prestige.
  — Emily Bingham, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2023
• Or, maybe more likely, about who is heading to the volleyball game, a favorite pastime for the 6-foot signal caller.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• Camping is a regular pastime for Saudis, but this is prime time.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024