Collocations for "pleasure"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "pleasure" in context.
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pleasure
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [great, enormous, real, genuine, immense] pleasure
- gives me [great] pleasure to [announce, introduce]
- take [great] pleasure in [seeing, making, telling]
- [sexual, carnal] pleasures
- [giddy, enraptured, consumed] with pleasure
- [writhing, moaning, sighing] in pleasure
- it [is, has been] a pleasure [meeting, seeing] you
- [it's, it was] a pleasure to [meet] you
- it's (been) my pleasure!
- it would be my pleasure (to)
- it's our pleasure to [inform, welcome, introduce]
- it would be a pleasure to [help, come]
- the pleasure is all mine
- have the pleasure of [working, playing, traveling] with
- I've never had the pleasure
- the pleasure of her [company, wit, surroundings]
- the pursuit of pleasure
- is this trip for business or pleasure?
- a pleasure [boat, ride, ground, port]
- the pleasure points on the body
- psychology: the pleasure principle
- sexually explicit: pleasure your [lover, boyfriend, wife]
- sexually explicit: pleasure him (in bed)
- sexually explicit: pleasure him with [your mouth, a toy]
- sexually explicit: pleasure yourself
- sexually explicit: [orally, sexually] pleasured
- sexually explicit: pleasured and [excited, aroused]
- sexually explicit: pleasured to orgasm
- sexually explicit: pleasured by [toys, her lover]
- pleasures the [senses, taste buds]
'pleasure' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
China
- abuse
- always
- barge
- behold
- bike
- chore
- company
- course
- cry
- deferred
- deprive
- derive
- engineer
- enhance
- ensure
- exist
- fishing
- fuck
- gasp
- groan
- growl
- guilty
- height
- introduce
- marry
- mix
- moan
- our
- pure
- quiver
- read
- recall
- sexual
- sheer
- shiver
- shudder
- sigh
- smile
- squeal
- strictly
- swoon
- thorough
- thrill
- whimper
- write