How to Use guilty pleasure in a Sentence

guilty pleasure

noun
  • As for his own guilty pleasure?
    — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Any guilty pleasures or odd habits?
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Seafood isn’t a guilty pleasure.
    — Amanda Leland, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Yet that’s all part of the mild guilty pleasure of it.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Amy Poehler does not want to talk about her guilty pleasures.
    — Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
  • Chocolate is no longer a guilty pleasure at this time of life.
    — Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • My guilty pleasure has been letting me down the last few years.
    — ELLE, 14 June 2022
  • And critics no longer treat his body of work like a guilty pleasure.
    — Nathan Powers, oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019
  • There are no guilty pleasures in childhood.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Cherry’s guilty pleasure food wise are sweets.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Who knew a product for blackheads could be such a guilty pleasure?
    — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Greek iced coffees are a guilty pleasure too for late nights at the studio!
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This one for sure should be a guilty pleasure, not a dietary mainstay.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
  • His guilty pleasures are warm chocolate chip cookies and long walks on the beach.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • So that’s my Christmas guilty pleasure song.
    — Essence, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Just like the rest of us, athletes get cravings for their guilty pleasure foods.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 15 Mar. 2021
  • His guilty pleasures are warm chocolate-chip cookies and long walks on the beach.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Truth be told, there's a guilty pleasure of viewing celebrity mugshots.
    — Chron.com Staff, Houston Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Sweet and savory, these guilty pleasures and culinary chefs-d'oeuvre top our list.
    — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Plus, there's the guilty pleasure of doing all that back-to-school shopping, too.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 29 July 2019
  • Shell is a film made with the intention of being a guilty pleasure.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Just the title may be a reason to tune in for guilty pleasure-seekers like me.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Your winter romance guilty pleasure is here.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Many judges admitted that the Dodge was their guilty pleasure out of our field.
    — Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2023
  • That’s a guilty pleasure, to follow the exploits of the rich and famous.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 4 June 2018
  • This will be far from O’Connell’s first brush with the summer guilty pleasure.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
  • Uggs of every kind—from slippers to boots—were a guilty pleasure of the fashion crowd.
    — Alice Cary, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2022
  • From deep cuts to guilty pleasures, each guest peels back the layers of the songs that left a mark on them — for better or worse.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That last one is a guilty pleasure for me, a show that makes the most of Sylvester Stallone's range.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Budgeting apps might become your new guilty pleasure.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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