Read full poem →called Hendiadys, meaning one thought in two expressions. The
ee is ' with the happy faces of those who were enjoying the
holiday.” }
Dictionary Entry
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
In a Sentence
“Enjoy your holidays! I enjoy dancing.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
himself enjoyingthemselves enjoyinglife enjoyingenjoying while
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Poetry examples for “enjoying”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Read full poem →And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
Old favourite tree, thou'st seen time's changes lower,
Read full poem →Blindly admire, and with such worship woo;
Being had, enjoying it decays;
And thence,
Read full poem →If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Read full poem →If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Read full poem →Wild-roaring o’er a linn:
Enjoying each large spring and well,
As Nature gave them me,
Read full poem →distance and sat back enjoying the bright lights and the coloured
fires and wrote page after page of villanelles and sonnets.
Read full poem →at the stall in the market,
I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.
Read full poem →I'd ask no night off when the bustle's over,
Enjoying so the dirt. Who's prejudiced
Against a grimed hand when his own's quite dust,