How to use pleasing in a sentence

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• The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.From the entry eye
• The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.From the entry elegance
• Of all the things that attracted her to the park, the timelessness of the ever-flowing river was most pleasing.From the entry timelessness
• Creating and designing asthetically pleasing maps to share on Reddit for updoots and karma.2015, anonymous, quoted in Kim Axelsson & Kasper Batalje, "Utforskning i spel och immersionens djup", thesis submitted to Södertörn…. From the entry updoot
• Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 201. From the entry parafeminism
• It's an odd little confection, the tête-bêche, but it's oddly pleasing.2011 July 28, David Barnett, “Tête-bêche books make a speculative return”, in The Guardian. From the entry tête-bêche
• Food historians believe this paradoxical treat began pleasing its adoring public sometime around the 19th century.2011, Ann Treistman, “Baked Alaska”, in Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?: The Fascinating Stories Behind America's Favorite Foods, New…. From the entry baked Alaska
• This canthal tilt is considered aesthetically pleasing and contributing to a perception of alertness.2010, Basil M Hantash, Hayes B Gladstone, “An algorithm and review of blepharoplasty and canthopexy”, in Expert Review of Dermatology…. From the entry canthal tilt
• One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104. From the entry triangle
• Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10. From the entry clinker
• And how far would poor Mellida go to receive one pleasing smile from him?"1998, Richard Brathwaite, Henry D. Janzen, The Two Lancashire Lovers, page 207. From the entry Mellida
• The latter is a pleasing and correct example of the Neogothic style.1979, Sandro Gattei, Sandro Pirovano, Robert Mainardi, Trentino Alto Adige, page 464. From the entry neogothic
• The cars, which are of pleasing but somewhat squarish outline, are unstreamlined.1963 August, W. Shepherd, “Stockholm's modern underground railway”, in Modern Railways, page 96. From the entry squarish
• It is yellow, brittle, dry and ricey and not of a particularly pleasing appearance.1920, Edward Bradfield, Wheat and the Flour Mill: A Handbook for Practical Flour Millers, page 9. From the entry ricey
• Like most pure-bred fowls, a flock of Rhode Island Reds is very pleasing to the eye.1913 March 29, Mrs. E.F. Lant, quotee, “Why I Raise Rhode Island Reds”, in Kansas Farmer, volume 51, number 13, page 14. From the entry Rhode Island Red
• Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57. From the entry steampunk
• But we’re not very pleasing to behold.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times. From the entry unbecoming
• This book has not been written with the goal of pleasing beer geeks, tickers, fetishists, raters or advocates.2015, Max Bahnson, Prague: A Pisshead's Pub Guide, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry ticker
• It is the most common of all capsica, and its fruit is particularly pleasing to the feminine palate.2008, Lars Hansen, IK Foundation, The Linnaeus Apostles: global science and adventure, Volume 3, Part 3, page 1346. From the entry capsica
• Pleasing lacewings (Dilaridae) carry their hairy wings outstretched at rest and resemble small moths; beaded lacewings (Berothidae) look like caddis flies.2006, Encyclopedia Americana, volume 1, page 645. From the entry pleasing lacewing
• Most Goliards roved from town to town, begging food and lodging, earning some coins by pleasing their audience with their songs.1996, Jeffrey M. Duban, transl., edited by Judith Lynn Sebesta, Carl Orff: Carmina Burana: Cantiones Profange, page 5. From the entry goliard
• A single, rare species of pleasing lacewing, Nallachius americanus (MacLachlan), occurs in the southern parts of the Great Lakes region.1996, Gary A. Dunn, Insects of the Great Lakes Region, page 154. From the entry pleasing lacewing
• Typographically the tables are pleasing and easy to read.1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10. From the entry typographically
• The tables are supported on a single metal leg of pleasing style on the inside and on two bodyside supports.1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222. From the entry bodyside
• On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping, the Little River meanders.1958, New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society, The New Zealand Railway Observer. From the entry manscape
• Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.1923, James Huneker, Old Fogy. From the entry comminglement
• Is it of any shape remotely pleasing to the eye?1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links. From the entry cottage loaf
• “There's no good getting up,” I thought, “for if I do I shall somnambulise, and maybe break my rather pleasing nose.”1905, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, My Friend the Chauffeur, page 85. From the entry somnambulise
• Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book?1904, Mary Elizabeth Burt, Poems That Every Child Should Know, Preface. From the entry verily
• Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing.1903, William Robinson, The Garden. From the entry fairmaid
• Researchers have found that, for example, images are more interesting when they are more aesthetically pleasing or when their content is visually complex or unfamiliar.2022, Daniele Rama, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Rossano Schifanella, “A large scale study of reader interactions with images on…. From the entry interestingness
• Intuitively, there could be a piece of characterless prose which nevertheless happens to be euphonious, i.e., the words it contains make a pleasing musical sound.2020, Jenefer Robinson, “Style and Personality in the Literary Work”, in Steven M. Cahn, Stephanie Ross, Sandra Shapshay, editors…. From the entry euphonious
• Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman. From the entry amid
• Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover. From the entry wheyness
• As a struggling student, Lo was fed up with “schoolish practices” and refused to perform for the sake of pleasing her teachers.2010, Laurie MacGillivray, Literacy in Times of Crisis: Practices and Perspectives. From the entry schoolish
• In the three upper elements, the knop-finial-fillet, both masters use all three squares from the base plan forming widths of 1:2:√2 (another pleasing rhythm).2007, John James, In Search of the Unknown in Medieval Architecture, Pindar Press, →ISBN, page 438. From the entry knop
• Of course, the remains of meat in fresh garbage or at a landfill are not the most pleasing archaeological artifacts that one can handle.2001, William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry meat diaper
• A judicious distuning, applied to piano tone, has the effect of introducing a wavering quality which the ear interprets as a pleasing liveliness of tone.1990, Robin Maconie, chapter 12, in The Concept of Music, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 105. From the entry distune
• It is pleasing to think how intensely Weiner must suffer in New York City, where even educated natives grunt a brick-tongued, boomerang-voweled, Stallonian yo-patois.1988, Spy, page 32. From the entry voweled

Meaning of pleasing

1. adjective Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
2. noun Pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing.".

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Questions about pleasing in a sentence

How do you use pleasing in a sentence?

Pleasing is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.”

What is a short sentence with pleasing?

“But we’re not very pleasing to behold.”

What does pleasing mean?

Pleasing means agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.