How to Use pleasing in a Sentence

pleasing

adjective
  • He wanted his kitchen to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
  • Few things are as crowd-pleasing as a slice of sprinkle-flecked cake.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The fact that things have played out this way is amazingly pleasing and also ironic.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Using hedge shears or bypass pruners, cut stems back several inches to give the plant a pleasing shape.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Some cities have colorful parades, and music fills the day, while everyone focuses on pleasing mothers all day long.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • Pro offers a sleek, easy-to-navigate interface that's not just pleasing to the eyes but also enhances usability.
    New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2024
  • It was also intended to make bathrooms cleaner, neater and more pleasing to women patrons and to reduce the cost and time of restroom maintenance.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Many birds’ songs sound musical to us, with distinct notes that are repeated in pleasing patterns at a steady speed—melody, rhythm and tempo, basically.
    Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • No stretch was more aesthetically pleasing than five minutes, 16 seconds toward the end of the second quarter.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Farkas believes the pleasing sensory stimuli of his app could also encourage many people who wouldn’t otherwise meditate to give it a try.
    Matt Fuchs, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
  • One of the big benefits for taking Twitter private is Musk can make changes more quickly without worrying about pleasing shareholders.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
  • These impressive results were borne out in the pleasing image quality in our photo and video ad-hoc testing, and put the monitor in good stead for movie or photo viewing and even light photo editing.
    Tony Hoffman, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The strait itself remains as neutral as the sky, ever-changing, ever-unreliable, like some people-pleasing friend aware of the pressures of having to be everything to everyone.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • And over the years, it’s been very pleasing to see things change.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Testers found the lights give off a soft, clear, pleasing light.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The tunes are pleasing to the ears of parents and babies alike.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Add in a pleasing makeover and one of the best pairs of headphones just got better.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This one is feather light, with a slight and pleasing hint of salt.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The league believes its timers will move things along at a pleasing pace.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • My friends will hold the bags — the bags full of tomatoes (my tomatoes) — and feel their pleasing heft.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
  • The photos showed a fair amount of detail and a pleasing amount of contrast.
    David English, PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And a short step from there to argue why this ratio is so pleasing to the eye.
    Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The 10-episode season is passable, even pleasing, for the most part.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
  • The round design is pleasing and fills a space with 360 degrees of sound.
    WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • There are rules to this: A proper gift book is a great read and a pleasing package.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The patio at Lucille's is very pleasing, and so is brunch.
    Brooke Viggiano, Chron, 6 Jan. 2023
  • After all, this is the state that introduced the pleasing Cobb salad to the rest of the United States.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • This also made for a pleasing mixture of warming sun and the cooling canopy of trees.
    John Carpenter, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As pleasing as dancing on the pedals and rowing through the gears is, this type of fan service isn't enough to pull the Z over the top.
    Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver, 10 June 2022
  • The pleasing design and comfortable fit round out the package.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2022

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