Sentence examples for the pursuits from inspiring English sources

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the pursuits

noun

The act of pursuing.

  • Unremitting pursuit of wealth doesn't bring happiness, particularly if successful.

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She was always interested in the pursuits, sports and studies of her family.

Pokémon Go offers the players a chance to revert to the pursuits of their childhood.

The pursuits of her class of Americans, which served as the material for her novels, are glimpsed in her letters.

I soon realized that all the pursuits that drove my existence in New York meant nothing here.

The pursuits of Pocher builders, I have learned, are not motivated by profit or ruled by logic.

As a result they – sorry, we – lose £17m a year, by subsidising the pursuits of the exceedingly rich.

Unlike France or Germany, Italy does not challenge the British at any of the pursuits they are best at: parliamentary democracy, fighting wars and writing plays.

The prize springs from Mr. Milner's intense passion for physics and his belief that it is one of the pursuits that defines and ennobles us as human beings.

None of these facts negate the foxhunting, but they do demand a more nuanced interpretation of John's fogeyish embrace of the pursuits of the English landed gentry.

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The pursuit was dogged.

The pursuit resumed.

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