pleasurable

Example Sentences

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His “more real” is frustrating, pleasurable, terrifying, exalting, and as familiar as our own peculiar families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Groceries cost more, time feels thinner and the idea that eating well — both pleasurable and nourishing — should be attainable on a modest budget can feel almost quaint.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

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

All pleasurable things, all travel and sports and entertainment and good food and fine clothes, are in the very shortest supply, always were and always will be.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles