Example Sentences

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The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2022

"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.

From Fox News • Nov. 9, 2020

They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2011

In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was as eager and delighted as if she were bent on a day's pleasuring.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne