pleasure

The drought has ruined pleasure boat tourism, while some question whether the lake will ever return to enduring full health.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Ultra-processed food triggers dopamine, the pleasure hormone, which promotes craving. Food companies work with scientists to find just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat that make you want to eat more and more."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

If the film feels episodic while tracking the detours of the four—some antic, others grave—that’s partly the point: Among other things, the movie is a brief for leisure as a source of pleasure and disclosure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Heart of the Beast” is an onslaught of danger and misery, alleviated only by the pleasure of watching James’ survival skills and ingenuity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It would be a genuine pleasure to renew their acquaintance, but now was not the time, for she had to get to the chicken coop, quick!

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Could there be a place, somewhere in this vast Earth, where Joan and Jean don’t have to sacrifice their codependent sisterly bond to enjoy life’s pleasures?

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now he's enjoying the simple pleasures of being able to come home and put the kettle on or have a shower after he moved in to a new social home two weeks ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He asks Samantha Holloway, the owner of hockey’s Seattle Kraken, about the greatest pleasures of running the team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

My husband enjoyed humble pleasures, and he had two favorite fast-casual restaurants where the food was good, the patrons were kind, and the staff were simply salt-of-the-earth people.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Turner played hymn after hymn, repeating a few verses when she hummed to the chorus, taking care to avoid the ones that suggested the pleasures of leaving this weary world.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Mayor Bill de Blasio let out a pleasured tweet of thanks, saluting the State Senate’s co-leaders, the Democrat Klein and that noted progressive, the Republican Dean Skelos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014

The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Am I not to be pleasured by your company?”

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.

From Fox News ● Nov. 9, 2020

They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011

In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a place monastic, set above The city's pride and pleasuring below; The benediction of the sky breathes love Over the olive trees and vines a-row.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various