pleasure

The loudest noise I’ve had the pleasure of meeting.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She admits she has worried whether dressing modestly will make it harder for her to succeed in this industry, but she finds pleasure in it too.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Augenbraun acknowledges that all this preparation can take away some of the pleasure of being outdoors and that, ultimately, awareness may simply be the best defense we have at our disposal.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

“And now it gives me great pleasure to announce the start of the fourth Global Youth Summit on the Environment,” Sinclair said.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

What is strange is the air of grim discovery around it, as though the pleasures of cooking with recognizable ingredients had only recently been recovered from a hostile laboratory.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Oh Yeah?” is an artful, side-eyed smirk at the pleasures and melancholy of stardom, from an artist who has remade rock and R&B for the bi-panic era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

In other moments, she emphasises simple pleasures, writing of the "joy found in ordinary things" and "the everyday magic of life itself".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Such pleasures were beyond El Patron now, and he had few enough left at the age of 148.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Full of dumb pain we pleasured our centuries with anticipation; we watched as we gamed away the hours.

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

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

"They suit me well enough if the rule be not too rigidly enforced, so as to interfere with pleasuring."

From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley