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Example sentences for "pleasanter"

Lexicographically close words:
pleadings; pleads; pleas; pleasance; pleasant; pleasantest; pleasantly; pleasantness; pleasantries; pleasantry
  1. That is a pleasanter expression than she really has.

  2. I think I'd feel pleasanter about leaving my asylum if you had something romantic and adventurous to offer instead.

  3. He was wont to say that no one was pleasanter than Hester when she was reasonable, or made more suitable remarks.

  4. For my part, I dare say you will think me very old-fashioned, but I must own I never can see that people with titles or wealth are one bit nicer or pleasanter than those without them.

  5. We have companied with many men, but never saw we a pleasanter or more courteous than thou: and now we must part from thee.

  6. By Allah, I never in all my life passed a pleasanter night!

  7. But how much pleasanter it is here on almost every account.

  8. No corner or recess had a pleasanter filling, to her fancy, than the old brown cupboard or shelves which had always been there.

  9. I can't think of anything pleasanter than this room as we are now.

  10. And so much pleasanter for having got it ourselves.

  11. Ye are happily met," said the Knight of St. John; "we have passed together pleasanter nights than this is likely to be.

  12. They are pleased to welcome me at their board, because the Roman doctors call me learned, and because Nature gave me a wild wit, which to them is pleasanter than the stale jests of a hired buffoon.

  13. Own that this is pleasanter than the sights and sounds of the city we have left.

  14. There was one pleasanter obstacle which I desired to find; but I am bound to confess that it did not exist.

  15. And yet I could have wished that the last act of my campaigning had brought with it pleasanter recollections.

  16. She had been prepossessed with him at their first meeting, and she thought his manner still pleasanter on this second occasion, and she was struck afresh with his air of quiet refinement.

  17. Bessie never passed a pleasanter morning; her tale enthralled her, but she laid down her book occasionally to notice her dumb companions.

  18. I thought that it would be pleasanter for you to have Anna with you at meals, as I suppose she has taken them with you since you were carried off.

  19. I found you pleasanter than other men, and I even fancied that I loved you.

  20. And then the creek that was his flow of thought shot round a bend into the broad and sparkling reaches of a much pleasanter subject than the one that had to do with Harpes and Tweezys and Joneses.

  21. After a time he came to where the pleasanter subject, on her knees, was weeding among the flowers that grew tidily round Moccasin Spring.

  22. Though Ted could not always very well divine the cause of her clear rippling laughter, no sound was pleasanter to his ears.

  23. Well, don't you think the chief justification of stories is that they are pleasanter than the worst that may happen?

  24. There was nothing Jotun-like about his long, lean features, yet his expression was little pleasanter on that account.

  25. I suppose it would gladden all of you to feel safe from her hand, but I will plainly tell you that if harm has happened to her, you will find a lair-bear pleasanter company than I shall be.

  26. Luckily, things were a little pleasanter for me here, else I should have taken the liberty of Hannibal's ring.

  27. I hope that it will be pleasanter than the last.

  28. Sometimes the young oarsman kept in the middle of the great stream, and sometimes it seemed pleasanter to be near the shore.

  29. This was the only room in the house which she had seen before; and was so much larger and pleasanter than any she knew elsewhere that she took great delight in it.

  30. It would be pleasanter for me to defend the flag," said Father Voynovski, "than listen to old women's sins in this neighborhood.

  31. There can't be a pleasanter afternoon in the whole year than this, and I've walked alone, always till now.

  32. Dirk was the most intelligent of the fishermen, and began to dimly perceive that it was much better and pleasanter to live cleanly and neatly than to pattern his household arrangements after the beasts of the field.

  33. Granted, however, a reasonably dry day in mid-week, and there is certainly no pleasanter golf to be found within so short and easy a journey from London.

  34. Well, one day I came along there, because upon the grass it was pleasanter walking than on the stones in the street, and I saw Mademoiselle Lucia who was sitting quite quiet, looking out far away.

  35. It is pleasanter to think of him as working at the formation of that musical taste which ten years afterwards led him to amaze the Parisians by proving that French melody was a hollow idea born of national self-delusion.

  36. It is pleasanter to think of a philosopher finding diversion in weaving laces, than of noblemen making it the business of their lives to run after ribands.

  37. But, to pass to pleasanter subjects, when do you mean to choose among the young fellows, and present me to a new nephew?

  38. I wonder, David, how the devil you could suppose we were on pleasanter terms!

  39. I'm glad to see that you and Richard are on pleasanter terms," said David Arden to his brother, as he sipped his tea beside him.

  40. He had very little patience with people who were not like him, and thought that the world would be a much pleasanter place if all the insects had been made Mosquitoes.

  41. That was much pleasanter than having to grow up all alone, as most young Frog-Hoppers do, never seeing their fathers and mothers or knowing whether they ever would.

  42. That butt of Malmsey of the Duke of Clarence's must have had a pleasanter flavor than Seine mud.

  43. The man of science was middle-aged; he had a pleasant face, made pleasanter still by a kindly expression, but an absorption in scientific ideas engrossed his whole person.

  44. You will find posting pleasanter than the coach, and we shall give a good account of any highwaymen who may think fit to cry, `Halt; your money or your lives.

  45. The distance between Hurlston and Texford was upwards of two miles by the road, but the inhabitants of the village could enjoy a pleasanter and much shorter path across the fields.

  46. I know of no place where we are less likely to be disturbed, and so long as these dry nights continue there can be no pleasanter camping place.

  47. They will have to lay up at Sanpritchit all day to-morrow; and it seems to me it would have been a great deal pleasanter for them to stay here Sunday, and to have started on Monday.

  48. But if one chanced to be born a mule and had to draw water for a living, a pleasanter place in which to carry out one's vocation could hardly be imagined.

  49. A good pedestrian could encompass the island on foot, and a journey more full of varied scenery or among pleasanter or more unsophisticated folk could hardly be imagined.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasanter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.