Sentence examples for main pastime from inspiring English sources

His main pastime seems to be watching baseball on TV.

The story centers on the snobbish denizens of a German spa in an imaginary city where casino gambling is the main pastime.

Regular live jazz acts and DJs provide entertainment in the basement but banter, gossip and lively discussion over new artistic projects are the main pastime here.

Interiors are pared down and Ikea-esque; messing around on the lake is the main pastime so probably better for older children.

One is as a soft-focus Arcadia of affluence and apolitical contentment, where it is almost always either sunny or snowing, falling in and out of love is the main pastime and everyone has great hair.

But it's hard not to when I recall, three decades ago, how the main pastime of my childhood left me segregated as to who I could play and what I could aspire to.

Entertaining was one of the couple's main pastimes and the house drew a Who's Who of Israeli politics, as evidenced by the photos of the smiling family patriarch with Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu as well as other leaders.

Lynch grew up Irish Catholic in Dolton, Illinois, an urban sprawl suburb on the south side of Chicago – "a concrete jungle", as she calls it – where the main pastimes were "beer, whiskey and storytelling".

In the short summers the main activities were swimming and fishing, while in the autumn the chief pastime was hunting for game in the forests.

Conversation was the principal pastime.

While declining interest and shrinking wildlife habitat may be the main threats to the pastime, hunting and gun groups are worried by the occasional efforts to restrict it, like the ban on mourning dove hunting in Michigan that was promoted by animal rights advocates.