Sentence examples for personal pastime from inspiring English sources

Sport is a personal pastime, not a fascistic mobilisation.

Under criticism from some in the Middle East for spending such large sums on a personal pastime, the sheik, who is said to have a fortune of $10 billion, has responded by saying that Godolphin's successes give an immense boost to Dubai's reputation.

So if you do this photography thing for a living, or if photography for you is a pleasant creative personal pastime, my message is the same.

Bible journaling is a personal pastime, one in which you decide what things to explore through the medium of a journal.

Distributor Summit will be hoping that $90m actioner The Last Witch Hunter does better than 2004's sci-fi fantasy love-in The Chronicles of Riddick ($115.8m), the last time Diesel let his personal pastimes stray on to a film set; the new one heads out initially in the US, UK and a random-looking scattering of 15 or so territories across most continents.

Externally encompassed by media, I still crave it in personal pastimes: I long for my weekend Netflix mornings and the "fierce" Project Runway Finale.

But just in case, as fall is approaching, you feel like gourds on ice are not enough, and Dame Curtsey offers up another one her personal pastimes, the Wigwam.

You might want professional experience, or you might want experience in a personal pursuit or pastime.

Today's adolescents are more interested in the instant gratification of video games, cellular phones and personal computers, not a pastime that rewards patience and long hours spent with glue fumes and Xacto knives.

Yet part of the enduring appeal of baseball has been that the national pastime is personal: not only are the players and managers easy to see, they have always been accessible enough on a daily basis that fans could grow familiar with them.

Among Western samples, the scale has been found to have a three-factor structure comprising Entertainment-social (e.g., "Keeping up with news about my favorite celebrity is an entertaining pastime"), Intense-personal (e.g., "To know my favorite celebrity is to love him/her"), and Borderline-pathological (e.g., "I have frequent thoughts about my favorite celebrity, even when I don't want to").