Example Sentences

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JG: I’ve been loving the stories about global soccer stars enjoying the strange pleasures of American culture and cuisine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

He immediately asked for my email address and said he would invite my wife Debs and I to enjoy all the pleasures that city could and would provide.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

I was also parmesan-less, so I pivoted toward other salty pleasures instead: crushed bacon and a pan of toasted breadcrumbs made from the heel of a sourdough loaf.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Yet there are more than enough compensating pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Moreover, Siddhartha’s sympathy and curiosity lay only with people, whose work, troubles, pleasures and follies were more unknown and remote from him than the moon.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse