please
adverb
(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
were pleasing
-
past progressiveof please.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Both Grealish and Gordon played as if they had a point to prove - and while in the second half England played within themselves, they were pleasing on the eye in the first half.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
Pasadena’s Bowen Court, completed in 1911, and Santa Monica’s gracious Horatio West Court, designed by Modernist Irving Gill and completed in 1919, offered models of density that were pleasing, practical and inexpensive to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Hakimi’s goals were pleasing on the eye in the way they allied great technique with excellent composure.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
In The Times, Howard Taubman allowed that some songs were pleasing, “but not enough of them.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
Sandrart, one of the earliest writers on painting, says that Rembrandt "usually painted things of a simple and not thoughtful character, but which were pleasing to the eyes, and picturesque"—schilderachtig, as the Netherlanders called it.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
