Sentence examples for devote his leisure from inspiring English sources

He forswore crosswords for a spell to devote his leisure hours to clues of another kind, writing detective novels.

His father was ordained as a Presbyterian minister but left the Church to work in human resources at Raytheon and devote his leisure time to sports betting and solitary drinking while Paul's mother found Jesus, moved to Colorado, and started a second family with an Air Force colonel whom Paul, as an adolescent, dreamed of murdering with a hatchet.

He has devoted his leisure time to golf and fishing.

This calligrapher flourishes a pen for the wealthy and devotes his leisure to pleasure.

He was happily married, had six children, and devoted his leisure to poetry, botany, and optical experiments.

Whorf never got an advanced degree, but he took graduate classes in his free time with the anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir, in the nineteen-thirties, and he devoted his leisure hours to the study of Native American languages.

From 1825 Boucher de Perthes was director of the customhouse at Abbeville, near the mouth of the Somme River, and began devoting his leisure to archaeological searches in the Somme valley.

Twenty-nine years old, Cameron devotes his leisure time to plugging away at his comics and trying to forget that he lives in Wisconsin.

He devoted his leisure time to convert the " waste land " into a botanical and ornamental garden, and in this work he was ably assisted by the late sub-curator, Henry Baines.

He devoted his leisure hours to visiting the city's museums, art galleries and opera houses and gained a reasonable fluency in German by the time he was 12.

Walpole replied in great excitement that he had just been appointed as a Russian officer, in the Sanitar: While in training for the Sanitar, Walpole devoted his leisure hours to gaining a reasonable fluency in the Russian language, and to his first full-length work of non-fiction, a literary biography of Conrad.