Sentence examples for popular pursuits from inspiring English sources

Learning to cook Tibetan meals and meditation sessions are popular pursuits for first-time visitors.

Boating, windsurfing, cycling and horse riding are all popular pursuits on the lake.

Still, even excluding those vastly popular pursuits, the industry generated more than $18 billion in revenues in 2000 -- $213 million from the sale of hiking boots alone.

When Paul Galvin named his new car radio a Motorola in 1930, he was mashing two popular pursuits of the day: motoring in automobiles, and listening to music on a Victrola.

The Reading Rooms' name harks back to one of the most popular pursuits in 18th-century Margate, when visitors would slake their thirst for literature in rooms and libraries throughout the town (including one on the Georgian square on which the Reading Rooms now sits).

Finding ways to power tiny devices has long been among nanotechnologists' greatest challenges and most popular pursuits.

Collecting antiques became a truly popular pursuit in the 20th century.

And although martial arts training remains a popular pursuit for New Yorkers, their reasons appear to have changed.

Fantasy football is an increasingly popular pursuit among Americans who seem, as the song goes, "ready for some football" practically all the time.

Heading for sunnier climes in search of work is certainly a popular pursuit - in Spain alone, 40% of the foreign residents are British.

Attacking benefit fraud has been a popular pursuit for politicians of all parties, with high-profile fraud cases causing understandable public outrage.