He has quite as many hobbies as you have, and, what is more, he has a profound respect for hobbies in general, and is universally charitable toward those of others.
Hobbies of various kinds, especially the making of collections, even of such trivial things as stamps, will often serve the purpose of distraction from gloomier thoughts.
Men with hobbies have done some of the best of the world's work; busy for many hours every day, they have yet lived to be eighty and even ninety years of age, and have been industrious to the end.
Abner was just about to throw open the stable door, preparatory to giving his hobbies an airing, when a latch-key was heard operating in the front door of the house itself.
He complains that his literary hobbies have necessarily to be indulged more or less furtively in restaurants and railway-trains.
He was equally an enthusiast in his hobbies and his tastes.
One of his special hobbies is the introduction of the aesthetic principle into Kindergartens.
One of his special hobbies is the introduction of aesthetic principles into Kindergartens.
Men's hobbies gallop like mad things along the roads of life; one is chasing glory, another pleasure; many leap over precipices and break their rider's neck.
Only the big hobbiesof your man are worth especial study.
You cannot use his hobbies to help your prospects unless you share his feelings to a considerable degree.
All we men had grown used to our wives and mothers, and grandmothers, and great aunts all pouring a chorus of contempt upon our hobbies of sport, drink and party politics.
Piety is one of the popular virtues, whereas soap and Socialism are two hobbies of the upper middle class.
My hobbieswere there, and I could work them to my heart's content.
Johnson was a cautious and considerate fellow-man, whose murders were doubtless private hobbies and exercises growing out of his environment and heredity.
A villain who has no good traits, no hobbies of kindness and affection, is never born into the world; he is always created by grotesque novel writers.
This often includes hobbies or other relaxation things that tend to disengage the left brain and allow the right brain greater autonomy.
When amusements cease to afford any gratification, and people lose interest in their favourite hobbies and pursuits, their nervous systems are perilously near a breakdown.
Yet there are many hobbies which demand a certain amount of concentration without making too great a call on the mental faculties.
As to the stage of convalescence from any illness, any medical man will testify that people who have hobbies get well very much sooner than those who have not.
Hobbies have ceased to be regarded simply as a means of putting in time, and have come to occupy an important part in medical treatment.
Hobbies in the prevention and treatment of breakdowns.
These considerations should be weighed before certainhobbies are dismissed as being unworthy of a plain man's notice.
Many men fall into the error of assuming that their hobbies must be as dignified and serious as their vocations, though surely the example of the greatest philosophers ought to have taught them better!
It is only a "boor" who seeks to impose his own hobbies and interests upon a stranger, disregarding entirely the presumable likes and dislikes of the latter.
How to have compelling interests without riding hobbies is the great problem for both boys and men.
My method was, on the contrary, to encourage my boy to have several hobbies which he might ride with enthusiasm, but to make it a rigorous rule to exchange his "mount" occasionally.
These periodical outings and his private hobbieskept his mind and nerves well balanced.
It's never wise to let yourhobbies and work exclude all other interests.
Hackers' delight in techno-toys also tends to draw them towards hobbies with nifty complicated equipment that they can tinker with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hobbies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
