How to Use leisure in a Sentence

leisure

noun

• I don't have much time for leisure.
• This rustic leisure stands in stark contrast to the grim reality of the crematoria blowing smoke a few miles away.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Those with enough capital to travel during winter and fall wore white as vacation attire, meant to signal an air of leisure.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
• Last year, leisure and hospitality workers saw some of the biggest wage gains, as employers raised wages to better attract and retain workers.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2022
• During the pandemic lockdowns, players within these countries were using the game not as a form of leisure, but as a way to supplement or supplant their incomes.
  — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• The life of leisure speaks to many who took the pandemic as an opportunity to reconsider their relationship with the office.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• Pricey for the average leisure traveler, perhaps, but Boom and major airlines see a big market for business travelers.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Hotel operators have offered other ways to keep leisure guests engaged when business travel still lags behind prepandemic levels.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• Some news broadcasts may distract viewers from traditional leisure activities, such as watching football.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
• Crimes of the Future portrays a world that has solved the problems of pain and infection, which ends up transforming surgical interventions into modes of art and leisure.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• Despite signs of an economic slowdown, leisure and hospitality businesses continue to hire workers to recoup staffing levels.
  — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• But while their origins remain somewhat murky, these artifacts—rolled in times of anxiety, uncertainty and leisure—speak to universal human experiences.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• Their leisure, like a monastery’s, was ruled by the clock.
  — Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
• Then, roll out and shape the turnovers at your leisure.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2018
• Guests at the party pull the tee shirts out and smell at their leisure.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 24 July 2014
• Make the sauce once, stick it in your fridge, and use it over the next few weeks at your leisure.
  — Deena Shanker, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• And a new shade of leisure for Huntsville’s downtown-ish area.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2022
• Guests are free to use the fire pits and swimming hole at their leisure.
  — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 29 Jan. 2018
• Subscribers pay a fee and use the service at their leisure.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 12 May 2018
• To register for the leisure paddle, go to ohioriverpaddlefest.org/registration.
  — Taylor Burnette, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2022
• Buy it for yourself and leave it on the top of the book stack so guests can flip through at their leisure.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2021
• Exit the rink at your leisure, trade in your skates, and get to lip smacking.
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• Hop aboard a ferry and hop off at any of the five villages at your leisure.
  — Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
• The rest of us may find the play’s leisure in getting there frustrating.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2019
• Pulling up the rear were auto, banks, travel and leisure and tech stocks.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
• Two paddle boats are available at the beach and free for guests to use at their leisure.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• Summer is a season of fun, restoration, and for many, a time of leisure.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 26 July 2022
• So workers need to make the most of their limited leisure time.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Some opt to break from their hike and wait out the snowmelt elsewhere, then return at their leisure.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Now it’s been turned into a hotel and leisure complex with a lush rooftop garden.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024