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How to use enjoyment in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Enjoyment means the condition of enjoying anything. Example: “Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.”

Examples of enjoyment by meaning

nounThe condition of enjoying anything.

  • Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
  • Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world.1950 January 4, Harry S. Truman, Fifth State of the Union Address

nounAn enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.

  • I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.

More sentences with enjoyment

  • I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.From the entry class
  • Last's night enjoyment went beyond my expectations.From the entry go beyond
  • The blues juju—or jou-jou—relies upon the enjoyment of desires that cannot be satisfied.2018, Mark Fisher, “it doesn't matter if we all die: the cure's unholy trinity”, in Darren Ambrose, editor, K-punk: the collected and…. From the entry juju
  • Furthermore, the subjects reported significantly higher enjoyment when they had experienced encompassment.2014, Daniel B. Klein, A Demand for Encompassment. From the entry encompassment
  • Peace, security, the untroubled enjoyment of unproblematic Nature: such is the main motif of Constable's work.1983 April 25, Robert Hughes, “The Wordsworth of Landscape”, in Time. From the entry unproblematic
  • A horsemaster at heart, she finds instant enjoyment atop a fast steed.1968, 1968 Mirror, Waltham, Mass.: Waltham High School, page 81. From the entry horsemaster
  • Knott abode, in the large room set aside for his exclusive enjoyment, and that of his attendant.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry abide
  • Something similar occurs with the life-processes, which are more ensouled in the enjoyment of art than they are in normal life.2020, Baruch Luke Urieli, Hans Müller-Wiedemann, Learning to Experience the Etheric World, page 48. From the entry ensouled
  • He has decided that his $10 gadzillion salary and the nonmonetary enjoyment of playing baseball outweigh his next best alternative.2014, Matthew D. Shank, Mark R. Lyberger, Sports Marketing: A Strategic Perspective, 5th edition. From the entry gadzillion
  • The critic scrutinizes a sculpture with an eye to writing a review; the gallery-goer contemplates it for sheer enjoyment.2012, Noël Carroll, Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry gallery-goer
  • But I enjoyed the camaraderie once in a while with Catharine, who bigheartedly wanted to share her enjoyment.2011, Jean Sanders Torrey, Best Friends Forever, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry bigheartedly
  • "Money is power ; money commands a certain kind of enjoyment ; the excessive want of it is palpable disenjoyment."2004, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 3. From the entry disenjoyment
  • I took French Lit, it’s like Sartre said, eh, ‘The pleasure given coincides with the enjoyment received.’ ”1991, Daniel Richler, Kicking Tomorrow, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry pull the pud
  • FidoNetters are largely amateur operators who run systems for the no-cost or little cost enjoyment of their users.1990 March 31, Jason Steck, “Thanx”, in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026. From the entry FidoNetter
  • Jam today is always better than jam tomorrow, unless sufficient incentive is offered to forgo the immediate enjoyment of today's jam.1985, Phillip Crowson, Economics for Managers: A Professionals’ Guide, 3rd edition, Macmillan Press, page 26. From the entry jam tomorrow
  • What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14. From the entry abandoned
  • The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work.1912, Daniel D. Bidwell, As Far as the East is from the West. From the entry marvelous
  • Participants felt more enjoyment from the media feedback when they felt more encouraged, more competent, more autonomy, and that the information was accurate.2021, Ryan Rogers, Media Feedback: Our Lives in Loops, page 31. From the entry encouraged
  • To end on a positive note, let's talk a little about freudenfreude, which is the opposite of schadenfreude—it's the enjoyment of another's success.2021, Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, Random House, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry freudenfreude
  • Cate Blanchett, whose leather and velvet and satin wardrobe was handed down from Lesbian Jesus specifically for the enjoyment of gayelles everywhere!2018 June 11, Simon Abrams, Alex de Campi, “The Pros and Cons of 'Ocean's 8'”, in Hollywood Reporter. From the entry gayelle
  • What they showed all the enginerds at the show was that you can build a high fuel-efficiency car without necessarily sacrificing driving enjoyment.2016 April 19, David Tracy, “Mississippi State's Lightweight Subaru BRZ Hybrid Is 100 MPG Worth Of Awesome”, in Jalopnik. From the entry enginerd
  • Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an environment without economic and administrative limitations to encourage creative productions that are interactive and gifted for public enjoyment.2013 May, Kerry D. Rohrmeier, Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn (thesis), Reno, N.V.: University of Nevada…. From the entry do-ocratically
  • Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .2010, Robert Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, page 110. From the entry protensive
  • I happen to believe that each of us has the right to find enjoyment, as long as we do not harm anyone else.1970 August 7, Peter J. Steincrohn, “Ask The Doctor”, in Akron Beacon Journal, 132nd year, number 115, page B 19. From the entry nose-job
  • Members of the College contributed to the enjoyment at local ceilidhs by playing the pipes and supplying an accordionist and a fiddler and dancers.1956, Piping Times, volume 9, Glasgow: League of Young Scots, College of Piping, →OCLC, page 7. From the entry ceilidh
  • All of us were being paid regularly, wined and dined overmuch and had the whole theater world of Moscow for our enjoyment.1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 3, in Joseph McLaren, editor, I Wonder as I Wander, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, published 2003…. From the entry overmuch
  • The handsome face of the young Apache seemed utterly blank of all expression except gluttonish enjoyment of the food he was wolfing.1920, Robert Ames Bennet, Bloom of Cactus. From the entry gluttonish
  • From exercising in the open air all that delightful, breezeful morning, their appetites became immensely whetted for a full enjoyment of the rich repast.1906, Mattie Sampson Smith, “At the Picnic”, in Miss Claire's pupils, The National Baptist Publishing House, page 78. From the entry breezeful
  • Anhedonia can induce diminished motivation to engage in a potentially pleasurable activity (anticipatory anhedonia) and loss of the enjoyment experienced from the action itself (consummatory anhedonia).2020, Erin Trifilio, John B. Williamson, Kenneth M. Heilman, “Chapter 9: Changes in Emotions and Mood with Aging”, in Kenneth M. Heilman…. From the entry anhedonia
  • Because "the enjoyer" is prone to create coalitions with a diversity of other positions, consumerism, favoring short-term enjoyment, tends to lead to a "funnification” of the position repertoire.2010, Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, Dialogical Self Theory, page 291. From the entry enjoyer
  • The evident enjoyment with which he dipped a French fried potato into a glob of ketchup, then plopped it into his mouth, repaid Kristi in part.1984, Beatrice Warren, Nurse Kristi’s Secret, Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry french fried potato
  • More broadly, communal biotics, or ethics, elevates diminution of suffering into a common goal, while culture is that aspect of communal biotics in which people share enjoyment.1983, William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200. From the entry biotics
  • She will pay less attention to mother, who through necessity, may begin to shed some of her dependency and her enjoyment of being the corpse at every funeral.1973, Ratibor-Ray M. Jurjevich, Direct Psychotherapy: Assertion-structured Therapy, University of Miami Press, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry the corpse at every funeral
  • Arthur Rimbaud, in a hotel dining room where, though indulging in a Barmecide feast before empty plates and glasses, he evinces the most evident signs of gastronomic enjoyment.1935, Milton H Stansbury, “The Surrealists”, in French Novelists of Today, University of Pennsylvania Press, pages 121-136. From the entry Barmecide feast
  • But given that we're not about to change the horrificity of the world, we may as well have a shy and see if we can somehow derive ourselves some enjoyment.2013 September 22, Daniel Harris, “PSG v Monaco – as it happened”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry horrificity
  • And he may suffer reduction in his enjoyment of his life, through pain and suffering and inability to participate in his usual activities, whether of a temporary or permanent nature.1981, C[harles] D[avid] Baker, “Remedies”, in Tort (Concise College Texts), 3rd edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry incompensable
  • He could talk morals to others in the grand manner, and with positive enjoyment, but to be sermonized himself secretly exasperated him because it constrained him and made him self-conscious.1914, Arnold Bennett, chapter 6, in The Price of Love, London: Methuen, page 126. From the entry sermonize

Meaning of enjoyment

  1. noun The condition of enjoying anything.
  2. noun An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.
  3. noun An activity that gives pleasure.

Full definition of enjoyment

Questions about enjoyment in a sentence

How do you use enjoyment in a sentence?
Enjoyment is used as a noun. For example: “Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.”
What is a short sentence with enjoyment?
“Last's night enjoyment went beyond my expectations.”
What does enjoyment mean?
Enjoyment means the condition of enjoying anything.

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