LEISURELY in a Sentence
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138 example sentences for LEISURELY, such as:
1. They were leisurely and perfumed.
2. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3. Idle folks have the least leisure.
4. None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
5. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.
2. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3. Idle folks have the least leisure.
4. None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
5. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.
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Meanings and Examples of LEISURELY
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leisurely
ad. in an unhurried way or at one's convenience
a. not hurried or forced
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1 Laurie leisurely departed to recover the lost property, and Jo bundled up her braids, hoping no one would pass by till she was tidy again.
2 Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog.
3 He looked at me before he proceeded: indeed, he seemed leisurely to read my face, as if its features and lines were characters on a page.
4 After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.
5 Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.
6 She rang the bell till it broke with a twang; I entered leisurely.
7 In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys.
8 They were leisurely and perfumed.
9 Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris; and down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools.
10 The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered along.
11 The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.
12 He was kissing her now and his mustache tickled her mouth, kissing her with slow, hot lips that were so leisurely as though he had the whole night before him.
13 Supplied with these facts, Lily leaned awhile over the side, giving herself up to a leisurely enjoyment of the spectacle before her.
14 She liked the smell of hot earth and clean grease; and the leisurely chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug of the trucks was a song of contentment in the sun.
15 Like fashionables, they are for ever on the move in leisurely search of variety.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
2 Most people only have a limited amount of leisure time.
3 Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
4 Whale-watching has become a growth leisure industry.
5 As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
6 Swimming pools usually come under 'leisure centres' in the telephone directory.
7 The money will enable us to upgrade the town's leisure facilities.
8 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
9 None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
10 This concept may be equally applicable in other sectors, such as services and information-ultimately producing more leisure time.
11 He put the idea by until he was at leisure to consider it carefully.
12 What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
13 Most people now enjoy shorter working hours and more leisure time.
14 Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
15 Idle folks have the least leisure.