Sentence examples for preferred pastime from inspiring English sources

17 As adolescence is a time of increasing independence and adoption of new behaviours, we regarded screen time spent during weekends (ScTWends) as the best expression of the participants preferred pastime with a plausible effect on health.

Preferred Pastime: I would say my hobby is probably getting drunk.

Jomier is a solitary, sour-tempered stick-in-the-mud whose preferred pastime is brooding.

Ireland's opponents tonight and on Tuesday are Estonia, a country more famous for basketball, motorcycle racing and stag parties than football, a sport once openly reviled in Estonia because it was the preferred pastime of foreign oppressors who settled there after it became part of what used to be the Soviet Union.

If cleaning is neither your forte or preferred pastime, a robot vacuum will come in handy.

Crate digging -- the act of searching for the perfect record in a crate of dusty LPs -- has long since been the audiophile's preferred pastime.

Scattered across the country, the grandchildren appear to prefer pastimes like riding horses to managing the family business.

Sarina Papadopoulos, a 26-year-old from Liverpool who made Verbier her home eight years ago, prefers her pastimes altogether less geeky than dam-spotting.

Some top players, though, retire from bridge, preferring less stressful pastimes.

We enjoy "diversion" in our pastimes, prefer "biodiversity" in our ecosystems and strive for "diversified" holdings in our portfolios, yet we unconsciously resist diversity in our social and professional communities.

Left Behind author Tim LaHaye disagrees, saying "Rather than forbid young people from viewing their favorite pastime, I prefer to give them something that's positive".