How to Use pleasure in a Sentence

pleasure

1 of 2 noun
  • I paint for the sheer pleasure of it.
  • It is a special pleasure for me to be here with you today.
  • Is this trip for business or pleasure?
  • Now I can enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like spending time with my family.
  • His grandparents took great pleasure in seeing him graduate from college.
  • Food is more than just a pleasure.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But it's been a pleasure to be on.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a lot of pleasure in this.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • But there’s pleasure in it too.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2026
  • And no one takes any pleasure in that at all.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But what about dopamine and pleasure?
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • There’s pleasure in the pain of it.
    — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, and no one takes any pleasure in that at all.
    — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There’s pleasure and there’s grief.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Noah Wyle is a pleasure to watch.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • He was loved by all who had the pleasure to work with or know him.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This has been a wild ride and a pleasure to share that ride with all of you.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The thin light of some minor pleasure starts to glow.
    — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This is a fun-loving year of pleasure!
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • So far, the sightings have been a pleasure for many.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • It's been such a pleasure and an honor.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
  • It's been such a pleasure and an honor.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • For a few brief seconds of pleasure?
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
  • Always a pleasure to talk to you.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But with new pleasures come new perils.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Pick your pleasure and lean into it.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • There’s a [twisted] pleasure in this kind of word.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Pereira matches him in warmth and their duet is a pleasure to watch.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But as with any of life’s great pleasures, there are choices to be made.
    — Linda Gassenheimer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Take time out for pleasure today.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026

pleasure

2 of 2 verb
  • Say yes to pleasure and soft joy.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Now that effort will pay off, so relax and let someone pleasure you.
    — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The most important thing is to feel good about your body and know how to pleasure yourself.
    — Evelyn Bauer, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
  • France showed Child that food could be a portal to pleasure, not just a means for survival.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The man on the street could be aroused at the sight of my prepubescent body and use it as fodder to pleasure himself.
    — Iris Selena Sanchez, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And pleasure in the aromas that swirl into the atmosphere and fill your kitchen.
    — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
  • And men would berate her in messages and pleasure themselves while doing so.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Lois and Peter’s love life is stalled, and Lois would like him to pleasure her in a certain way.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • During her job interview, Girlie is shown a video of a girl pleasuring a man.
    — Sarah Rose Etter, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes, Winslow would pleasure himself at his locker or in his hotel room on team road trips.
    — cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • Libra season kicks off today, making play and pleasure your main focal point.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Like, worse than the time Lois accused the nurse of pleasuring her comatose husband.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The grotesquerie of the images is meant to interrupt what pleasure the scene might otherwise prompt.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • In an early draft, Judy had written a scene in which Sandy uses her dog to pleasure herself.
    — Mark Oppenheimer, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Finances, confidence and self-worth could be tied to pleasure, dating or spending habits today.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Virginia and her partner are still learning to communicate about this, and working to find new ways to pleasure each other.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Try to tap into your creative energy with ample time allotted to art, hobbies, or pleasure each week.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
  • This device pleasures your clit at the same time with three vibration intensities and seven patterns.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Fifty years ago, a young woman named Hannah pleasured herself in a erotic magazine photo spread.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • All of these young men grew up under the Great Depression, when food was often a matter of survival rather than pleasure.
    — Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Megan Thee Stallion is a lithe clotheshorse of a wordsmith whose lyricall bread and butter is commanding men to pleasure her.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
  • After all, there’s room for only one man in this administration who has the ability to pleasure himself.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The complaint also said Gilbert attempted to persuade the woman to pleasure herself in her bedroom with the door open.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2021
  • This romance is about a grumpy Scottish laird falling for a feisty English lady, and trust me, this man knows how to pleasure his woman.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Motherhood changed my relationship to thrill-seeking, to pleasure.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Nova 2 is ideal for anyone who prefers to pleasure themself in a rocking motion (versus thrusting in and out).
    — Gina Vaynshteyn, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The complaint also alleges Gilbert attempted to persuade the woman to pleasure herself in her bedroom with the door open.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But pleasuring yourself could actually relieve some of these symptoms.
    — Erica Sweeney, SELF, 4 Feb. 2026
  • While, erm, pleasuring himself in the shower, a fully naked and very drunk Sean is taken aback by a familiar face who enters his bathroom.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 May 2025
  • Everyone laughed at Kier’s tale of children pleasuring themselves?
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025

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