avocation

Example Sentences

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His dialogue snaps, and he can riff on just about anything, including Joe’s avocation as a jazz pianist, with authority.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024

This avocation can be traced back to an obscure Farmer Alfalfa cartoon his father showed him once.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

He was also an amateur boxer, an avocation that left him with a permanently sunken left cheekbone.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022

But as "A Guide to the Labyrinth" so powerfully demonstrates, he was increasingly besotted by the language of poetry, an avocation he had pursued since his early teen years.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison