pastime

Example Sentences

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The first digitally native generation is resurrecting an old-fashioned American pastime: Shopping at the mall.

From The Wall Street Journal

While normally frustrating Elliot was one of my favorite pastimes, today it just made me feel stupid.

From Literature

By now, board games were a nostalgia lifeline, an intergenerational pastime that brought people together and reminded them of times before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal

We still live in San Francisco in the house we bought in 1989, shopping mostly at the same stores and engaging in many of the same pastimes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The self-proclaimed homebodies share that their ideal quality pastime is rewatching “Grey’s Anatomy” for the third time, sitting together in silence while enjoying cookie milkshakes, or spending a weekend away in nature.

From Los Angeles Times