pleasing

How To Use pleasing In A Sentence

• All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
• And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
• The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
• Yes the win in Riesa was pleasing as I was wearing a normal costume and was unrested, unshaved and untapered so that's always a confidence boost
• Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
• It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
• Wednesday's win was a pleasing, restorative result at a time when it was badly needed, but it would be delusive to read too much into it.
• And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
• Its foliage is pleasing and the seed pods are marvellous.
• The arrangement of the furniture formed a pleasing ensemble.