Example Sentences

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Executive chairman Peter Cowgill said Christmas trading had been "pleasing", praising staff who "ensured that we were largely unaffected over the full five week period by the difficult weather conditions experienced in December".

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2011

They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mary had been pleasing herself with the prospect of seeing her at this time; and with all their company, the house feels at times a frightful solitude.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

If his character had been pleasing to her, his social position would have given him the right to have aspired to her hand.

From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Roe, Edward Payson