Example Sentences

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"We were surprised at the pleasantness of them."

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

That’s the price of living in year-round Mediterranean pleasantness: We forgo the seasonal rejuvenation that inspires poets and songwriters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2024

This multifunctional test is a card with a QR code that subjects scan to answer four questions that evaluate odor detection, intensity, identification and pleasantness.

From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2023

“There was nothing heavy or morbid about these conversations,” Alice McDermott writes, but “rather an eager, industrious, even entertaining, pleasantness in all of it.”

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

“So,” Elizabeth said, with a nervous pleasantness, it being necessary, she felt, to say something, “you just getting to this big city? It must seem mighty strange to you.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin