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How to use the word pastime in a Sentence?

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It pains me to say that we live in a time when national pride is fading fast. Now, I’m no stranger to people hating on the United States. I saw it every day at the U.N. Dictators and thugs loved to get in front of the camera and tell the world how bad America is, it’s their favorite pastime, and as far as I can tell, it’s now the main purpose of the United Nations.

Nikki Halley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was shocked, george had never even looked at art…he read Churchill’s little essay ‘Painting as a Pastime,’ and at the same time he got an app on his iPad where he could draw stick figures; when he was on the road he’d draw himself at a podium giving a speech, sending it to me, and somehow he started thinking about becoming a painter.

Laura Bush

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is such a moment for us to celebrate as a community and, you know, it's a big deal, america is going to see three Latinas on the most important American pastime.

Ivette Rodriguez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This appears to be remarkably poor judgement from Tesco, fox hunting is an illegal, archaic pastime that's abhorred by the majority of the population.

Lee Moon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Japan is very competitive in softball and baseball. It really is the national pastime there and because of that and... how well it is being played around the world, that we have a great opportunity to get back on the program, the competition level is very high, we are covering the globe with players from all over.

Ron Radigonda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Hunter S. Thompson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Elizabeth II

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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