ENJOYMENT in a Sentence

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393 example sentences for ENJOYMENT, such as:

1. So much is mine as I enjoy.
2. Sailing is an activity I much enjoy.
3. I enjoy going to church and worshipping God.
4. I enjoy your company, but your brother bores me.
5. His society became gradually her most exquisite enjoyment.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENJOYMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enjoyment
 n.  the pleasure felt when having a good time
 n.  act of receiving pleasure from something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  It is probable that there was an idea of penance in this mode of occupation, and that she offered up a real sacrifice of enjoyment in devoting so many hours to such rude handiwork.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
5  From that epoch, except when the child was asleep, Hester had never felt a moment's safety: not a moment's calm enjoyment of her.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
6  The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
7  Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance of her table, and of all her domestic arrangements; and from this kind of vanity was her greatest enjoyment in any of their parties.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  They speedily discovered that their enjoyment of dancing and music was mutual, and that it arose from a general conformity of judgment in all that related to either.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
9  His society became gradually her most exquisite enjoyment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
10  When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment in it appeared so imperfect.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
12  She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  There was such a malignant enjoyment in her utterance of the last words, and she broke into such a disagreeable laugh, that I was at a loss what to say.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
14  She quite gloated on these questions and answers, so keen was her enjoyment of Sarah Pocket's jealous dismay.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
15  His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
17  There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
18  Sailing is an activity I much enjoy.
19  Surprising as it might seem, some tourists actually enjoy the British weather.
20  Allow me to congratulate you on your birthday and may you enjoy good health and long life.
21  So much is mine as I enjoy.
22  They enjoy participating in a wide variety of activities, both locally and further afield.
23  Human nature is the most pathetic: we always dream of the horizon of a wonderful rose garden, not to enjoy today in our window open rose.
24  You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
25  Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
26  I enjoy your company, but your brother bores me.
27  Certainly in our society teachers don't enjoy the respect that is accorded to doctors and lawyers.
28  I enjoy going to church and worshipping God.
29  The film was so full of commercial breaks it was impossible to enjoy.
30  If someone hurts you, please continue good good, to enjoy life, hurt the same.