How to Use hedonist in a Sentence

hedonist

noun
  • This is his take on recovery rap — 12-step-core from an artist who was once one of hip-hop’s proudest hedonists.
    — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This is the burger for hedonists (particularly those who have time to take a nap right after).
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
  • And what fame gave me and what my addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And what fame gave me, what addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • These are unhappy hedonists, boozing and fornicating for lack of fulfillment.
    — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • All of the group’s hotels appeal to wellbeing-loving hedonists with a conscience—regular guests are predominantly female (around 60%).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The sequel strips Grace of what made her special and merely pays lip service to the first one’s worldview, representing the antagonists as generically incompetent hedonists.
    — Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The sequel strips Grace of what made her special and merely pays lip service to the first one’s worldview, representing the antagonists as generically incompetent hedonists.
    — Michael Ordoña, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Another cousin, the son of my industrialist uncle, has given up regattas and the hedonist’s life for a position in his father’s company that is, like all companies in Turkey, faltering under the tremendous burden of an economy in tailspin.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Ahmed is referring to the era in Tangier's history, beginning in the interwar period and peaking in the 1950s, when the city served as a licentious playground for a motley assortment of artists, socialites, and hedonists.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The ambush is delivered courtesy of the Mangkwan Clan, a cult of kamikaze hedonists who rejected Eywa after a volcano reduced their corner of Pandora to ash, but the RDA is happy to seize on the chaos and launch their final attack on the Metkayina’s oceanic stronghold.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Guests in attendance for this lavish soirée include George’s fellow intellectuals, a large number of dapper hedonists, the handsome horndog Judge Roland Brack (Nicholas Pinnock) — whose wolf-whistle come-ons are neither fully rebuffed nor reciprocated by Hedda — and Thea (Imogen Poots, wasted).
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025

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