How to Use hedonist in a Sentence

hedonist

noun

• Helou is both scholar and hedonist, which makes for the best kind of guide in the kitchen.
  — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 2 Apr. 2018
• If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
• If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
• In this new work, set in and around a mud pit, a young aesthete tries to persuade his grubby hedonists to de-ooze.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• In broad terms, a hedonist is someone who tries to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.
  — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• Kit is a bit more of a hedonist, with plenty of casual hookups under his belt and weed on his nightstand.
  — Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• Women can be hedonists too, after all, and can delight in things that may shorten our lifespan.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• This is his take on recovery rap — 12-step-core from an artist who was once one of hip-hop’s proudest hedonists.
  — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
• Two hedonists with a penchant for Jim Beam and bad decisions.
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 19 May 2017
• This is the burger for hedonists (particularly those who have time to take a nap right after).
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
• This is the burger for hedonists (particularly those who have time to take a nap right after).
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
• Be a night owl For many, Berlin’s legendary party scene is the holy grail for hedonists everywhere.
  — National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
• Madison’s other best friend from college, free spirit, and charming hedonist.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 11 Apr. 2019
• As the words suggest, present hedonists live in the moment, without much thought of any consequences of their actions or of the future.
  — Dr. Lance Dodes, Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2017
• Because that mind-reading trick is handy and though Lestat may be a hedonist, Louis sees a bigger picture.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Affleck, with blond hair and a goatee, plays d’Alencon, an insensitive hedonist, with something close to glee.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Among the decadent fresh pastas, a hefty rigatoni is a hedonist’s delight, studded with guanciale batons fried to a crunch, the fat coating each ridged tube.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Whether the recipient is practical and all about ease or a hedonist and a lover of the finer things, these spectacular stocking stuffers are fool-proof.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2022
• And what fame gave me and what my addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• And what fame gave me, what addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
• Within the first six weeks, Joan proved not only to be a lusty eater but a very social and cuddly baby who loved long warm baths, in other words, a hedonist in the making.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Because, her letters show a complicated, deep, emotional person–not just a hedonist.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
• Reid plays the 150-year-old as a refined hedonist, less a creature of the night than a Eurotrash Ken Doll.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• These are unhappy hedonists, boozing and fornicating for lack of fulfillment.
  — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
• The historic cafés that served a generation of true hedonists have succumbed to the vigilance of federal prohibition agents.
  — Lillian Symes, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• His Bill isn’t a fratty hedonist so much as a man too psychologically compartmentalized to face his own misdeeds.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
• Danny is the sort of hard-partying, hard-drinking hedonist who wakes up with multiple undressed women in his bed, while Wihlborg refers to his body as a temple and disdains liquor and carbs.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
• One founder, Roger Somers, was an accomplished saxophonist, rogue architect and larger-than-life hedonist.
  — Damian Panetta, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
• In the 1890s, the women shared Gabriele d’Annunzio, the soldier, rogue, hedonist and symbolist poet.
  — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• In turn, Vegas provides a playground where the average person and the hedonist can engage in the sublime, the superb and the spectacularly over-the-top.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024