How to Use pleasurable in a Sentence

pleasurable

adjective
  • That night and the next two days passed by in a pleasurable haze.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 2 Apr. 2018
  • One of the year’s most pleasurable shows.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Its heat expands like a gas on your palate, the spice both pleasurable and painful.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The neck is full of nerve-endings, which can make a kiss there a lot more pleasurable.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 3 May 2019
  • Smoking in the tub is about as pleasurable as reading in the tub.
    — Garnett Kilberg Cohen, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Life in my e-mail inbox became more pleasurable, at least for a time.
    — Elizabeth Weil, Saveur, 6 Sep. 2016
  • Varying textures will make the meal more pleasurable to eat, too.
    — Kelsey Ogletree, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Video games were very pleasurable in the short term, addictive even.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
  • And the chore of having to put stuff away or do laundry isn't always pleasurable.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Think about what has annoyed you during this time and what has been a pleasurable surprise.
    — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • Pride is the pleasurable emotion that stands at the other end from regret.
    — Meir Statman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Best of the lot was a pork belly option, the meat sliced and fried to pleasurable crispiness.
    — courant.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The jolt was not always pleasurable; if the work was demanding, the man could be, too.
    — Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 7 July 2018
  • The band’s music feels, to this day, dangerous in the most pleasurable and rare of ways.
    — Lizzy Goodman, The Cut, 3 Apr. 2018
  • This is a part of the brain that registers pleasurable rewards.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • To watch this feels pleasurable and painful and mysterious and weird.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • Learning is pleasurable for me.
    — Renée Onque, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2025
  • More textured and earthy than fruit (but yellow fruit, if any), this is a savory, pleasurable wine.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • With the exception of envy, all of the deadly sins can be pleasurable in some way.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Olds inferred that there was something pleasurable about receiving a shock at that site in the brain.
    — Joel Dimsdale, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The leftovers are their own pleasurable reward.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The idea that every moment should be pleasurable is as ridiculous as the notion that life should be pain-free.
    — Philly.com, 25 July 2017
  • If the flavor is pleasurable, strain the tepache, discarding solids.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And even when life was difficult, a weave was something pleasurable — a weave, in the end, was joyful.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • Like most things in the Bible, to my young self, the bad thing always seemed to be more pleasurable and more practical.
    — Ari Marcopoulos; Styling By Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2021
  • How Tran films not only the movie's food but the cooking itself is a pleasurable relief.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As with many red ales from Belgium, there were a lot of different and pleasurable flavors in the mix.
    — Todd Haefer, The (appleton, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Conor is tech-obsessed and very logged on, but his version of that is so different from ours as to almost look pleasurable.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And when those seeds would otherwise be thrown in the trash, there is something even more pleasurable about nurturing new life.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025

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