PLEASURE in a Sentence

Learn PLEASURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
271 example sentences for PLEASURE, such as:
1. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
2. Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
3. What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
4. She could have clawed him with pleasure too.
5. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PLEASURE
pleasure
 n.  something or someone that provides a source of happiness
 n.  an activity that affords enjoyment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  She laughed with pleasure, her head tilted back, the lamplight sparkling on her lips and teeth.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  She had cast down her eyes demurely, her heart beating with wild pleasure, thinking the happy moment had come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  But it gave Gerald pleasure to air his views, and Ellen was unfailingly thoughtful of her husband's pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  As the carriage bore her down the red road toward the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett had a feeling of guilty pleasure that neither her mother nor Mammy was with the party.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Carreen's round little face became pink, as pleasure struggled with incredulity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She had never given him more than perfunctory courtesy before, and so the beaming smile of pleasure with which she greeted him and the two hands outstretched to his almost took his breath away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She felt that she could claw Melanie's ivory skin till the blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  She could have clawed him with pleasure too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  "I should cry into my pillow every night," said Scarlett, meaning to be flippant, but he took the statement at face value and went red with pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  From this, Charles and Melanie could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, the only excitement in her sheltered life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  No, she was not happy now, and at first she had been radiant with the pleasure of being in a crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  And, of course, you always blushed on such occasions, otherwise they would pinch you with more pleasure than was proper and then tell their sons that you were fast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  He seemed to take pleasure not only in affronting the sincere and red-hot loyalties of Atlanta but in presenting himself in the worst possible light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
2  It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.
3  Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
4  One can habituate oneself to living alone, though rarely with any pleasure.
5  No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
6  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
7  Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
8  I take it as a pleasure to attend your lecture.
9  Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
10  We anticipate great pleasure from our visit to London.
11  I tend to watch the television for pleasure rather than edification.
12  What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
13  The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
14  That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
15  Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.