vocation
Example Sentences
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Such suffering, however, did not distract him from his vocation.
“More of an electrician. It was a hobby that became a vocation once I turned fifteen and the war began.”
From Literature
"I'm lucky I have a partner that has helped me battle these demons, but I never thought a vocation - something I love - would push me to this."
From BBC
The young person finds a vocation and maybe a mate.
The author quotes, perhaps more than is strictly necessary, from the letters he’s issued to his clients and devotes a pair of chapters to climate change, a concern that has become his late-life vocation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
