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
• The act of doing a good job is thrilling and pleasurable.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021
• The 2018 Lexus GS F is a pleasurable ride and a good-looking car.
  — John Scott Lewinski, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Its heat expands like a gas on your palate, the spice both pleasurable and painful.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• The band’s music feels, to this day, dangerous in the most pleasurable and rare of ways.
  — Lizzy Goodman, The Cut, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Not that there weren’t pleasurable moments to be found.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2023
• The result is one of the great dance songs of the 1970s and one of a handful of tunes that epitomizes the pleasurable aspects of disco.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• And the chore of having to put stuff away or do laundry isn't always pleasurable.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 Nov. 2020
• With the exception of envy, all of the deadly sins can be pleasurable in some way.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Varying textures will make the meal more pleasurable to eat, too.
  — Kelsey Ogletree, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2021
• The shift throws aren't as toggle-switch short as a Miata's, but the shifter is equally easy and pleasurable to row up and down through the gears.
  — Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2022
• The river’s calm water and lack of crowds make this a pleasurable pastime.
  — Kai Oliver-Kurtin, Marie Claire, 25 June 2021
• Pride is the pleasurable emotion that stands at the other end from regret.
  — Meir Statman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• Kit Dillon reports : Few things are as pleasurable as a toasty fire in the backyard on a chilly evening.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• The rice cakes here come in the form of thick, chewy pieces rather than soggy coins, added at the last moment to maintain their pleasurable texture.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• 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
• And even when life was difficult, a weave was something pleasurable — a weave, in the end, was joyful.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• Whilst Taurus season lights up the most pleasurable angle of your skies there’s plenty to love about the first three weeks of May.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• One of the most pleasurable ways to explore the town – and other parts of the Opatija Riviera – is to follow the Lungomare.
  — Mary Novakovich, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• The book has some vivid, pleasurable passages, not least of which is Strike struggling to buy Robin some perfume (a scene reprised later in the book).
  — Moira MacDonald, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• Think about what has annoyed you during this time and what has been a pleasurable surprise.
  — Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• How Tran films not only the movie's food but the cooking itself is a pleasurable relief.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Feb. 2024
• The restaurant presents an inexpensive and pleasurable trip to Italy, as close as many of us will get any time soon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• According to Rodríguez-Roldán, joy is not only pleasurable, but necessary in dark times.
  — Orion Rummler, Them, 12 Aug. 2024
• Naltrexone reduces dopamine release from alcohol, blocking some of the pleasurable effects of drinking.
  — Joseph P. Schacht, The Conversation, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024