sybarite

Example Sentences

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Cindy may be the opposite of a sybarite, but she knows something about how human beings morph over time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

But he himself was no sybarite; he was earnest about his invention’s benefits: how weightlessness contributed to health and well-being.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

At once confessional and curatorial, the book portrays Oswalt as not just a celluloid sybarite, but someone dead serious about the art.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015

Then, too, I long for a quiet, contemplative life after all my trials; after the sybarite existence I have led, I long for the rustic joys of the golden age.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Jókai, Mór