pleasingly

Example Sentences

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Pleasingly, Italian feminists have been exercising their right to protest against the sculpture, but its existence remains a saddening sign of yet another missed opportunity for a female artist to create something truly powerful.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019

Pleasingly, the company has come out against humans consuming mashed-together hockey pucks of gelatinous chemical for any recreational purpose.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 16, 2018

Pleasingly for a club that cherishes its tradition, this heralds both progress and a historical symmetry.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2012

Pleasingly consistent, this seven-year-old has been out of the first three just once in his last dozen starts.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2011

When like harms have them requited Who in others’ harms delighted, Pleasingly the wrong’d are righted.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)