pleasurable

Example Sentences

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The particular choice of pattern or cartoon character for that first plate is a decision that feels weighty but pleasurable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Endorphins are the brain's "happy chemicals" and are released both to reduce stress and pain and in response to pleasurable experiences, such as laughing with friends over a truly terrible Christmas cracker joke.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

To play somebody like that, and to allow myself to be blind to the feeling of consequence and to just shoot like a rocket, that was incredibly freeing and pleasurable.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Not performatively fun, not “I’m smiling through gritted teeth” fun, but genuinely pleasurable, in that way long projects can feel when the rhythm carries you.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

“I am very greatly rejoiced to find that an occasion has occurred so pleasurable that the people cannot restrain themselves,” he jokes.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly