PLEASING in a Sentence
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356 example sentences for PLEASING, such as:
1. Take me to this address, please.
2. If you accept, please let me know.
3. Add some soda to the whisky, please.
4. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
5. Their candor is a very pleasing feature.
2. If you accept, please let me know.
3. Add some soda to the whisky, please.
4. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
5. Their candor is a very pleasing feature.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PLEASING
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pleasing
a. giving pleasure and satisfaction
n. the act of one who pleases
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She was a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort.
2 Her friends repeated the pleasing phrase enthusiastically, and for several minutes she stood, like a jackdaw in the fable, enjoying her borrowed plumes, while the rest chattered like a party of magpies.
3 The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.'
4 In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.
5 He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact.
6 Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
7 A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
8 I have studied how best to mortify in them the worldly sentiment of pride; and, only the other day, I had a pleasing proof of my success.
9 At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.
10 No feature in the scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing.
11 As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.
12 But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
13 But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.
14 Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital.
15 His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1 This area of France has a pleasing climate in August.
2 You can stain the wood with this special liquid to give it a pleasing color.
3 The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
4 Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
5 Their candor is a very pleasing feature.
6 The soft luster of the silk in the dim light was pleasing.
7 Euphonious even when spoken, the Italian language is particularly pleasing to the ear when sung.
8 They have a pleasing, crisp crunch on the outside, and a seductive, slightly chewy interior.
9 After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.
10 If you accept, please let me know.
11 Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
12 Add some soda to the whisky, please.
13 Take me to this address, please.
14 Send the Christmas cards round this afternoon, please.
15 We'll have another round of toast, please.