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How to use pastime in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun, verb

Pastime means something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably. Example: “Chatting is a pleasant pastime.”

Examples of pastime by meaning

nounSomething which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

  • Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
  • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN
  • Nor would there be an opportunity for the media's favorite pastime of exposing conflict among his advisors.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 398

More sentences with pastime

  • Cruising was a popular pastime for teens in this area at the time.From the entry cruising
  • One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons.From the entry breezeway
  • Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.From the entry unproductive
  • Distro-hopping is a time-honored pastime, where you download and try different Linux distributions.2021 August 13, Carla Schroder, Linux Cookbook, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN. From the entry distro-hopping
  • Sometimes the most rewarding pastimes have a higher barrier to entry than your typical board game.2019, Jessica Misener, JOMO: Celebrate the Joy of Missing Out!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Settler of Catan
  • They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164. From the entry rowdy
  • Smoking a huqqa was a common pastime among the Indian nobility.2014, Navina Najat Haidar, Courtney Ann Stewart, Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection, page 39. From the entry huqqa
  • Etsying, as any Etsian (as Etsy sellers call themselves) will tell you, is a highly addictive pastime.2013, Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry Etsian
  • They still find time for one of their favorite pastimes: girlwatching.2005, Mardy Grothe, Viva la repartee. From the entry girlwatching
  • Suitable pastimes for those who can't: banger racing; bull-fighting; playing central midfield for Birmingham City.2004 December 4, Simon Arron, “Goodwill to all motorists...”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.2002 October, “Cornhole Game”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 114. From the entry cornhole
  • Its use was a favorite pastime of the ancient Egyptians, and resembled the old English quarterstaff play.1922, Walter Libby, The history of medicine in its salient features, page 12. From the entry naboot
  • Turns out crocheting these scrubbers is a pastime among certain Korean ajummas, who love to give them away as gifts.2023 September 14, Lauren Ro, “I Can't Stop Buying Sparkly Korean Dish Scrubbers”, in The Strategist, New York, N.Y.: New York Media…. From the entry ajumma
  • In Kevin's hometown of Rochester, New York, going out for garbage plates was a pastime for him and his buddies.2013, Liana Holmberg, Deborah Steinberg, Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream. From the entry garbage plate
  • Tracking his movements in the wild, as he crashes karaoke parties and kickball games, has become an online pastime; Mr.2012 November 28, Dave Itzkoff, “With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry fairy godparent
  • The most popular pastime game in Korea is called Hwatu.2006, Ju Brown, John Brown, “Chapter Five: Points of Interest”, in China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs, BookSurge, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry hwatu
  • Spotting sign goofs is a roadgeek's pastime.2004 August 16, Kevin Flynn, “Drivers Urged To Forgo Car Once A Week”, in Rocky Mountain News. From the entry roadgeek
  • Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte.2003, Suzanne Morton, At Odds: Gambling and Canadians 1919–1969, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry barbotte
  • Robbery and murder are quite a family pastime, ain't they?”1910, William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger. From the entry pot-shot
  • And kids like us spent long summer afternoons happily playing tapeball, our version of the national pastime, in the streets of our working-class neighborhood.2018, J.H. Brown, Augie's War, page 182. From the entry tape ball
  • As my friends deserted our weekend movie-making for more teenagerly pastimes, I had turned to the cold, clean world of claymation and animated LEGOs.2011, Philips Patton, Angela, page 286. From the entry claymation
  • Unbeknownst to most casual observers, the national pastime merely migrates south of the border for several more weeks of exciting big-league-caliber winterball competition.2010, Peter C. Bjarkman, Baseball with a Latin Beat, →ISBN. From the entry winterball
  • Everyone knows the English have an obsessive habit for collecting things, but there are few more obsessive pastimes than the sport of peak bagging.2009, Oliver Berry, The Lake District, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry peak bagging
  • Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.2007 June 1, Brian Dakss, “Expert Offers Basics On What Some Call Nation's No. 1 Spectator Sport”, in CBS News, retrieved 31 Aug 2009. From the entry spectator sport
  • It is a favourite pastime of “Pushkinologists” to puzzle over the real life identity of characters in Pushkin’s poems, especially in Evgeny Onegin.1992, Marinus Antony Wes, “Aere perennius: Alexander Pushkin”, in Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen (Brill’s…. From the entry Pushkinologist
  • Local DJs, appreciating that bird-watching was a popular pastime for their listeners, rode the number as if it had a satin saddle.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry birdwatching
  • And it had taken place at the Piccadilly of all places, most exclusive of clubs, where blackballing was in the nature of a monthly pastime!1912, Ralph Straus, “The gates open”, in The Prison Without a Wall, Henry Holt, pages 188-189. From the entry sheepwise
  • When it comes to entertainment, Great Yarmouth is still rich with the sorts of curious and yesteryear pastimes you might have assumed died out years ago.2021 August 11, Robert Jackman, “Why now is the time to follow Banksy to Great Yarmouth”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • Speculating about American exceptionalism is an endlessly fascinating pastime, but whatever the reason, happyologists agree that the United States is an outlier from the global trend in subjective wellbeing.2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, page 426. From the entry happyologist
  • As far as I – and millions of other sewists – are concerned, sewing is one of the coolest, most satisfying and useful pastimes out there.2012, Lisa Lam, A Bag for All Reasons, page 4. From the entry sewist
  • By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.2009, Mark Clapson, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century, page 332. From the entry flapping
  • This ultrarelaxing pastime has caught on with the under-40 set — so get some needles and learn how to use them at the Knitting Guild of America's website, tkga.com.2001, Working Mother, volume 24, number 10, page 13. From the entry ultrarelaxing

Meaning of pastime

  1. noun Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
  2. verb To sport; to amuse oneself.

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Questions about pastime in a sentence

How do you use pastime in a sentence?
Pastime is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Chatting is a pleasant pastime.”
What is a short sentence with pastime?
“Chatting is a pleasant pastime.”
What does pastime mean?
Pastime means something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pastime (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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