Sentence examples for chief pursuit from inspiring English sources

One reason the preserves remain so unknown is that hiking is the chief pursuit.

He began to write his own material, though surfing remained his chief pursuit.

The chief pursuit of these women is more temporal than celestial.

He merely sang in whatever moments he had free from academic study, which was still his chief pursuit at the time of that memorable 1993 "Troyens".

Hi-fi "takes in the thin purse and the fat," Berger wrote in 1953, "the humble listener who likes his music best at parlor pitch and the hot-eyed and intemperate fanatic whose chief pursuit is not music but extremes in sound — the lowest booming bass; the highest biting note, tremblingly caught before it takes off for infinity".

In 1794, he began his scientific studies at the Collège Calvin, where he studied under Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher, who later inspired Candolle to make botanical science the chief pursuit of his life.

Above ground, the feeling is more quaint than spectacular, with hiking and biking the chief pursuits.

The traditional role of the housewife (whose chief pursuits were motherhood and domesticity) persisted throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th.

Drinking, fornication, shopping, and vulgar entertainment were the chief pursuits of a morally bankrupt society sunk in jahiliyyah, the condition of ignorance, barbarism, and chaos from which the Arabs were providentially rescued by the gift of the Koran.

Played with slouchy brio by Jeff Bridges, the Dude's chief pursuits involve bowling, avoiding work and drinking White Russians, the sweet cocktail made with vodka, Kahlúa and cream or milk.

The White House believes Obama can shine a spotlight on both the human toll of war and the fight against nuclear proliferation, one of his chief pursuits while in office.