Playing cards is a pastime.

My pastime is reading.

In my opinion, Tatoeba is a pleasant and instructive pastime.

Playing the piano is her favorite pastime.

Watching movies in theaters was once a favorite pastime for Bengalis.

My favorite pastime is strolling along the shore.

Keeping and breeding doves is a traditional pastime for residents of Derbent.

Even John Rawls's seminal Theory of Justice remained a pastime for the few rather than a precept for the many.

Tourism, in particular cruises as well as more adventurous trips has become a favorite pastime for the elderly.

Two new additions to the dictionary are related to Australia's capital, Canberra 'Canberran' is a person from Canberra, and 'Canberra bashing' is somewhat of a national political pastime.

The satirical website The Shovel is concerned that more damage is being done to the English language than the national pastime.

You might think of selfies as a fun thing you do, or at least as an annoying, but generally harmless pastime (unless someone is waving that selfie stick too close to our faces!).

With the mushroom picking season underway in the former Soviet state, the Ministry of Health have come up with guidelines to help pickers enjoy the pastime safely.

Squaring the circle of justice and growth was a necessary idea but not one that could ever inspire widespread enthusiasm and popular support. Even John Rawls's seminal Theory of Justice remained a pastime for the few rather than a precept for the many.

There, private economists are back enjoying their favorite pastime during periods of economic stress, namely trying to construct their own indices for GDP growth as at such times they do not believe the official statistics.

A word, a look, a reaction, a withdrawal, a criticism, a judgement.

There's powder box, derriere, a pooky, a poochy, a poopy, a poopaloo, a pooninana, a padepachetchki, a pow, and a peach.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

A. Fraenkel, A.

A shark is a fish while a dolphin is a mammal.

A watershed is a tipping point, a turning point, a game changer.

A punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

It's not a raven, a crow, nor a magpie. It's a rook.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

A resource represents a connection to a target.

A Quran above a cross, in a circle.

You know, a war, a hero, a tragedy.

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

A right without a duty is a privilege.

A sparrow built a nest on a tree.

Guts, A. Kuz'minykh, A. Levichev, and A. Shaidenko.

A king? A god?

A cortex, a forebrain.

A. and Musser, A.

Three subspecies are considered endangered in all ( A. a. sonoriensis , A. a. peninsularis ), or part of their ranges ( A. a. mexicana ).

A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane, and the two won't mix.

He is a type of a person who calls a spade a spade.

A man who swallowed a tree becomes a tree which swallowed a man.

She has a house, a dog, a cat, two kids and a husband.

My apartment has a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom.

I am a husband and father, a Buddhist, a jazz aficionado, a molecular biologist, a marksman, and a reader of modernist fiction.

I am a husband and father, a Buddhist, a jazz aficionado, a molecular biologist, a marksman, and a reader of modernist fiction.

A candidate holds a speech in a small village

A turkey is a little bigger than a chicken.