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How To Use pastime In A Sentence

• The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
• However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
• Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
• But as trading standards officers in York revealed this week, it's a national pastime rife with hidden dangers.
• Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
• It turns out that antiquing is a pastime that fits in perfectly with that motto. PrairieMod Monday
• Fuentes points out the Hispanic influence on one of New Yorkers' favorite pastimes: baseball.
• Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages. The Tapestry Book
• On our way from school in spring, a favourite pastime was to set fire to clumps of furze that grew in fields along the road.