Example Sentences

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"Police officers should not face losing their liberty or livelihoods for doing the job that society expects of them and it has been pleasing to see government acknowledgment of this."

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Instead the restraint exercised by most teams has been pleasing, as has the speed with which the TMOs have generally gone about their work.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2012

It has been pleasing to see the re-emergence of the 29-year-old, who received his first cap since June 2007 in the friendly with Mexico last month.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2010

What he has seen so far has been pleasing to his eyes.

From Los Angeles Times

She had that astounding faculty for forgetting what is displeasing to them—or even what has been pleasing to them—which those women possess who live from moment to moment.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert