PLEASANT in a Sentence

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For PLEASANT, below is one of 245 sentences:
The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLEASANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pleasant
 a.  affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
 a.  having pleasing manners or behavior
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In the summertime, on pleasant days, they move Mattie into the parlour, or out in the door-yard, and that makes it easier.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Ashley's heart was in none of the pleasant things he did so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  They were a pleasant race, these coastal Georgians, with their soft-voiced, quick rages and their charming inconsistencies, and Gerald liked them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  And life was too short to miss such pleasant things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  And yet--and yet--there was something very pleasant about the Tarleton girls' relations with their mother, and they adored her for all that they criticized and scolded and teased her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  John Wilkes always held his barbecues there, on the gentle slope leading down to the rose garden, a pleasant shady place and a far pleasanter place, for instance, than that used by the Calverts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Scarlett's eyes searched the crowd for Ashley, even while she made pleasant small talk with John Wilkes, but he was not on the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Often when newly married couples went on the usual round of honeymoon visits, they lingered in some pleasant home until the birth of their second child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  If her stay was pleasant, she would remain indefinitely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.
17  The little beach hotel is pleasant.
18  His colleagues were perfectly pleasant and friendly but they had their own lives to lead.
19  All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
20  Saunders said his guest was astonished to find pleasant public parks, nice streets and well-kept houses.
21  He was a very nice person, always pleasant and friendly.
22  The magnificent scene of the waterfall is pleasant.
23  Her garden was a cool pleasant place to sit.
24  I wished that she would always be so pleasant, and never push me about, or task me unreasonably.
25  The king said it was all the more homely and more pleasant for these fixings, and so don't disturb them.
26  I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
27  Yes, commencement is supposed to be a pleasant day.
28  Everyone liked Nancy's pleasant manners and engaging personality.
29  After the hot summers and cold winters of New England, he found the climate of the West Indies equable and pleasant.
30  See children gambol in the park is a pleasant experience.