How to Use pleasure in a Sentence

pleasure

1 of 2 noun

• I paint for the sheer pleasure of it.
• It is a special pleasure for me to be here with you today.
• Is this trip for business or pleasure?
• Now I can enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like spending time with my family.
• His grandparents took great pleasure in seeing him graduate from college.
• Not that the other stops along the way lacked for pleasure.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2023
• For me, the pleasure was entirely in the process, not the product.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Is there not pleasure in the slow burn, in the grind to victory?
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• But what a pleasure the reading of it turned out to be!
  — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• But as with any of life’s great pleasures, there are choices to be made.
  — Linda Gassenheimer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Behind the scenes, the Clippers have made clear their pleasure that Lue is their coach.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Eating cheese, for many, is one of life’s great pleasures.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• If this brought her pleasure, there wouldn’t be a problem.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Taurus is ruled by Venus, known as the goddess of pleasure.
  — Women's Health, 14 May 2023
• For Giorgi, the pleasure of the project lies in its Edenic innocence.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the post, Trump expressed his pleasure with Ramaswamy.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• Being surprised by people is one of the great pleasures and great pains of life.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2023
• For all of your styling pleasure, both for end-of-summer and cold-weather looks, shop the 20 best slouchy boots on the market ahead.
  — Cortne Bonilla, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2023
• Your sense of humor and gracious nature was a pleasure to be a round.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2023
• Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• Aesthetic pleasure glints at the jagged angles of the fragment.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• Much of the pleasure of Rap Sh!t is simply how well KaMillion connects with the camera.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• But the main point has been about trying to show the short span between ecstatic pleasure and shame.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• For the most hardcore of Callas fans, this set will provide hours of discovery and pleasure.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• There’s more: These four new memoirs invite us to sit with the pleasures and pains of family.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• People would come there to enjoy the sensual pleasures of food and flesh.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 May 2023
• But that’s where all the pleasure lies: on a construction like that and the care of it and the accuracy of it and the delicacy of it and the power of it.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The pleasures of poetry, meanwhile, are so rooted in the abstract and ephemeral that not getting the point can be the point.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Yet even the pleasure of the concert scenes remains scattershot.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• But oh, the lightness and pleasure of Lily and Ruth, their keen companionship over tea and toast, quick trips to the seaside, plimsolls by the door.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023

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pleasure

2 of 2 verb

• The man on the street could be aroused at the sight of my prepubescent body and use it as fodder to pleasure himself.
  — Iris Selena Sanchez, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• Lois and Peter’s love life is stalled, and Lois would like him to pleasure her in a certain way.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• France showed Child that food could be a portal to pleasure, not just a means for survival.
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• And pleasure in the aromas that swirl into the atmosphere and fill your kitchen.
  — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
• Hell, the only mistress he’d had, years ago, hadn’t figured out how to pleasure him like this.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 9 Jan. 2018
• There's beauty, love, and pleasure all around us today.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2021
• Now that effort will pay off, so relax and let someone pleasure you.
  — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
• And men would berate her in messages and pleasure themselves while doing so.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The grotesquerie of the images is meant to interrupt what pleasure the scene might otherwise prompt.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• Sometimes, Winslow would pleasure himself at his locker or in his hotel room on team road trips.
  — cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
• The complaint also said Gilbert attempted to persuade the woman to pleasure herself in her bedroom with the door open.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2021
• Megan Thee Stallion is a lithe clotheshorse of a wordsmith whose lyricall bread and butter is commanding men to pleasure her.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
• This romance is about a grumpy Scottish laird falling for a feisty English lady, and trust me, this man knows how to pleasure his woman.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
• The complaint also alleges Gilbert attempted to persuade the woman to pleasure herself in her bedroom with the door open.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2020
• Virginia and her partner are still learning to communicate about this, and working to find new ways to pleasure each other.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• He was accused of abusing underage girls and of directing some of them to pleasure some of his rich and powerful friends, including Andrew.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
• After all, there’s room for only one man in this administration who has the ability to pleasure himself.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2017
• Try to tap into your creative energy with ample time allotted to art, hobbies, or pleasure each week.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
• This list has been carefully curated to identify items that pamper and pleasure those on your holiday gift list, and give us all the gift of looking inward, instead of outward.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Advocates of a morally correct path to happiness also disapprove of taking shortcuts to pleasure with the help of psychotropic drugs.
  — Rafael Euba, Quartzy, 23 July 2019
• But committing oneself to pleasure as fully as Beyoncé has here takes defiance and guts—and, more deeply, faith in the preciousness of one’s own experience.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
• Different races have different ratios of misery to pleasure.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2020
• Evangelicalism’s official morality treats all pleasure as inherently suspect, the more so when those pleasures might belong to women or people of color.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Unlike men, who seem to avidly discover their own pathways to pleasure through genital self-stimulation, women often have a more difficult time giving themselves permission to figure out exactly what lights up the pleasure pathways in their brains.
  — Dr. Nan Wise, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2019
• Post-pandemic comedy has certain dominant themes: fear, lethargy, mental stress, masks, annoying teenagers trying to pleasure themselves despite a constant maternal presence.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2021
• The supplement contains mucuna pruriens, which increases relaxation and stimulates pleasure receptors.
  — Norcal Marketing Llc, Chron, 4 Feb. 2021
• The man on the street could be aroused at the sight of my prepubescent body and use it as fodder to pleasure himself.
  — Iris Selena Sanchez, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• Lois and Peter’s love life is stalled, and Lois would like him to pleasure her in a certain way.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• France showed Child that food could be a portal to pleasure, not just a means for survival.
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• And pleasure in the aromas that swirl into the atmosphere and fill your kitchen.
  — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024