How To Use avocation In A Sentence
- But Guckert's avocation is the least-creepy aspect of this story. 03/06/2005
- More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation.
- The bile directed at us in the column shows a desire to hurt me personally and to make my employer suffer for my avocation.
- He understood the importance of organized political parties and pursued politics as a career, not simply an avocation.
- He abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.
- Historical writings by vocational as well as avocational historians are rife with such writing, usually for the purpose of furthering the writer's agenda.
- No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons -- to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
- On the gravestones around Melrose Abbey are many names with the avocation added -- John Smith, builder; William Hogg, mason -- but many with the word portioner. An Autobiography
- And maybe you'll have some energy left over to indulge your avocation until it can become your vocation.
- Men with avocational interests in military affairs organized uniformed militia units, voluntarily meeting to train and purchasing their own uniforms.