Definition: 1. A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience. 2. Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness. 3. A formal expression. 4. An activity that affords enjoyment. 5. Sexual gratification.
Use 'pleasure' in a sentence:
1. Everybody takes pleasure in eating.
2. He took malicious pleasure in telling me what she had said.
3. She showed uncommon pleasure at his arrival.
4. Are you in Paris on business or pleasure?
5. She had the pleasure of seeing him look surprised.
6. It's been a pleasure to do business with you.
7. I will look back at this one with undiluted pleasure.
8. He laughed with pleasure when people said he looked like his dad.
9. The party turned out to be more of an endurance test than a pleasure.
10. She gets enormous pleasure out of working freelance.
11. She finds a perverse pleasure in upsetting her parents.
12. Is the trip to Rome business or pleasure ?
13. He beamed with pleasure at seeing her.
14. They really do get pleasure from spending money on other people.
15. I find no pleasure in seeing people make asses of themselves.
16. It's been a pleasure meeting you.
17. He seemed to take a perverse pleasure in being disagreeable.
18. Are you in Paris on business or pleasure ?
19. He takes no pleasure in his work.
20. Is the trip to Rome business or pleasure?
21. Watching sports gave him great pleasure.
22. Watching TV is our only pleasure.
23. It was a rare pleasure to see him in action.
24. She was positively beaming with pleasure.
25. The trip will combine business with pleasure.
26. For me, the holiday was sheer unadulterated pleasure.
27. "A pleasure to meet you, sir," he said.
28. 'A pleasure to meet you, sir,' he said.
29. I enjoy pleasure as much as the next person.
30. He mixed business and pleasure in a perfect and dynamic way.
31. It's a pleasure to meet you.
32. Well, it's a pleasure to meet you.
33. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our home.
34. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you here today.
35. Reading for pleasure and reading for study are not the same.
36. He derived great pleasure from painting.
37. We request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of our daughter Lisa.
38. You can't mix business with pleasure.
39. I don't like to mix business with pleasure.
40. Their pleasure expressed itself in a burst of applause.
41. Half the pleasure of an evening out is getting ready.
42. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.
43. Her work has given pleasure to millions of readers.
44. He agreed with obvious pleasure.
45. The car is beautifully engineered and a pleasure to drive.
46. It was she who first introduced the pleasures of sailing to me.
47. It gives me great pleasure to introduce our guest speaker.
