Example Sentences

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Mrs Samia made reference to the nightlife and other enjoyments the Kenya capital has to offer - but which has been curtailed because of the Covid-19 overnight curfew:

From BBC • May 6, 2021

But whatever the Puritans’ motives, they understood that there are degrading enjoyments.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

“Re-engaging with the same object, even just once, allows a reworking of experiences as consumers consider their own particular enjoyments and understandings of choices they have made.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2017

The historical novelist is always prey to the enjoyments of hindsight.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

He was for ever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley