pleasurable - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Another would have made the journey more pleasurable, given how popular the trip was.
  • find: I played minor roles initially due to my inexperience, but I found the work immensely pleasurable and rewarding.

Infinitive complement

  • read: Even tho some fragments may seem easy and pleasurable to read, some sections consist of pure statistical data analysis.
  • use: It's as pleasurable to use as the rest of iTunes.
  • drive: A far better balance than a car with far too much power which is far less pleasurable to drive, except in straight lines.

Modifies a noun

  • pastime: She knows how to have fun and dressing up, with the option of facial hair, remains a pleasurable pastime.
  • sensation: Your thinking has turned that particular demand to make this pleasurable sensation last longer than its natural duration into a problem.
  • stimulus: The resulting complex is too large to cross the blood-brain barrier, so the usually pleasurable stimulus is absent or reduced.
  • pursuit: These educators seek to make mathematics a pleasurable pursuit for the greatest number of students.
  • excitement: Blood had flowed in quarrels about her charms, and she had heard of these encounters with pleasurable excitement.
  • experience: Buying my iPAQ from you was a pleasurable experience.

Modifying Another Word

  • intensely: The former makes this book one of the more helpful aids out there, the latter makes the experience intensely pleasurable.
  • immensely: I found re-reading the book an immensely pleasurable experience.
  • deeply: This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable.
  • truly: The main shopping area, within the beautiful historic walled City makes it a truly pleasurable experience to walk between the shops.
  • highly: In an atmosphere of supreme comfort, this is a highly pleasurable way to discover the sites of the famed ancient civilization of Egypt.
  • particularly: Being involved in FF1600 was not a particularly pleasurable experience on Monday.

Used with adjective complement

  • find: Few things will be found more pleasurable in the life of an ordinary mortal than a ride by coach from Keswick to Windermere.
  • become: Once the mental shock of moving unsupported through the air was over, his sensations ceased to be unpleasant, became very speedily pleasurable.
  • make: The journey out was made more pleasurable for me by knowing that I had made my peace with 2/7.

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