pleases in English

verb
1
cause to feel happy and satisfied.
he arranged a fishing trip to please his son
2
take only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed.
this is the first time in ages that I can just please myself

Use "pleases" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "pleases" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pleases", or refer to the context using the word "pleases" in the English Dictionary.

1. Music That Pleases God

2. love is like a butterfly. it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.

3. A crushed heart pleases God (17)

4. What kind of worship pleases God?

5. Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.

6. Can an absolute ruler do just as he pleases?

7. Bible knowledge promotes honesty, and this pleases God

8. He strolls in and out as he pleases.

9. This inner beauty is also reflected in the Spanish saying: “A beautiful woman pleases the eyes; a good woman pleases the heart.

10. “If it pleases you, Councillor, my name is Galimatius Bletherskate

11. This magazine explains the kind of giving that pleases God.”

12. In the end... my dream is simple and does whatever it pleases.

13. That which Amuses is usually playful or humorous and pleases the fancy

14. But I was determined to live in a way that pleases God.

15. Cobnuts; as it pleases you, but never call them anything but delicious

16. What pleases the flesh is gluttony, intemperance, and what contributes to them.

17. Antonyms for Beleaguers include aids, assists, helps, pleases, soothes and makes happy

18. Yet, living in a way that pleases God brings great satisfaction and happiness.

19. You may form the loaves into boule, or any other style that pleases you.

20. Sense of "that which pleases, allurement" (often Blandishments) is from 1590s.

21. A Bathroom makeover that pleases both the man and woman of the house

22. For example, chapter 12 discusses the subject “Living in a Way That Pleases God.”

23. So the fact that you are a cardinal pleases me as it distresses me.

24. Anchor in 3 - 5m where it pleases or go to the pier, if there is space.

25. “Jehovah does everything he pleases to do in heaven and on earth.” —Psalm 135:6

26. These examples show that it is not the act of fasting in itself that pleases God.

27. If it pleases your majesty, you might send twenty elephants tote water to save those fish.

28. It means taking action —doing what pleases him, letting his laws and principles guide us in daily life.

29. Let yourself be tempted with the Blanquette of veal or the beef rib for 2, melting as one pleases.

30. But also to my own conscience, and weigh such things in the balance, as it pleases you.

31. Jesus said that there is the broad and spacious road —the easy one of doing what pleases oneself.

32. – John Valons, a now insane god of magic, appears on Apocalypticus and roams around doing what he pleases

33. The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, Amuses, and delights him

34. 16 If you fail to manage your finances wisely, it may be harder to remember your Creator by doing what pleases him.

35. (Matthew 22:37-39) Love of God leads us to want to be the kind of person that pleases him.

36. 8 Admittedly, in this wicked world, it is not always easy to remember Jehovah by sharing fully in activity that pleases him.

37. Bassgal At first glance, similar to the Baku old fortress, the village of Basgal (56 km from the district center) pleases with its well-groomed

38. The perfect present, an ideal alternative to a bouquet of flowers as the recipient is free to choose her floral gift herself for whenever she pleases.

39. Doing so pleases God and also helps to protect the family from sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. —Proverbs 7:10-23.

40. Lieutenant Foster, I imagine there'd be no difficulty in escorting Mrs. Beauchamp to Inverness, where she may book passage to wherever it pleases her to go.

41. In this screen editor, a method is adopted for editing a text with a cursor, and the user is provided with a cursor as moveable as one pleases.

42. The Boxfish does not lament the absence of a course correction mechanism, as its instability is one of its greatest assets on the reef, permitting it to swiftly whirl wherever it pleases

43. What this Accoutred frowsty barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here; A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies

44. Complaisance From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Complaisance com‧plai‧sance / kəmˈpleɪz ə ns / noun [ uncountable ] formal WILLING willingness to do what pleases other people — complaisant adjective — complaisantly adverb Examples from the Corpus Complaisance • If consensus breeds academic Complaisance , chaos does

45. Bertrand Russell , of all philosophers , pointed out that Byron ' s concept of freedom was the same as that of a German prince or a Cherokee chief : the pleasure of doing as one pleases and not having to account for it .

46. We are fast Approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

47. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.

48. ‘her face Contorted with anger’ ‘a Contorted version of the truth’ ‘He twists and contorts the impossible and the plausible, having his characters do impossible things that make absolute sense.’ ‘Reed Richards acquires the power to contort into any shape he pleases.’ ‘It twists their faces and contorts their features.’

49. "Alcaic Ode" O Thou, Holy Spirit of this stern place, what name soever pleases Thee (for surely it is no insignificant divinity that holds sway over untamed streams and ancient forests; and surely, too, we behold God nearer to us, a living presence, amid pathless steeps, wild mountain ridges and precipitous cliffs, and among roaring torrents

50. The Crusaders had formed a line of battle with Bohemond, Tancred, Robert of Normandy, and Stephen on the left wing, Raymond, Robert of Flanders in the centre and Godfrey, Robert of Flanders, and Hugh on the right, and they rallied against the Turks, proclaiming "hodie omnes divites si Deo placet effecti eritis" ("today if it pleases God you will all become rich").