leisure
Example Sentences
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“The explosion of working from home has created a boom in weekday leisure. Home-based employees can pop out for an hour or two during the day,” said Bloom, professor of economics.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2023
“She showed us that the Black body is also entitled to leisure. It’s not only about pain, about racism, about wounds, about problems.”
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
Amid the recession of 1981, as more Britons sought public assistance, he observed: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2021
“He’s in leisure. He’s basically in the tourism business. And it’s an easy place for consumers to cut back,” said Tim O’Brien, a former journalist who wrote a biography of Trump.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020
“Welcome, welcome, make yourself at home, browse at your leisure. We’re not a library, but feel free to pull up a chair and read as if we are.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Vocabulary lists containing leisure
The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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