How to Use hedonist in a Sentence

hedonist

noun
  • Helou is both scholar and hedonist, which makes for the best kind of guide in the kitchen.
    — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Back in the day, punks and hedonists did not rub shoulders.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no other way to put it: My skier friends and I are hedonists.
    — Jake Stern, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In this new work, set in and around a mud pit, a young aesthete tries to persuade his grubby hedonists to de-ooze.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Reid plays the 150-year-old as a refined hedonist, less a creature of the night than a Eurotrash Ken Doll.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • In the 1890s, the women shared Gabriele d’Annunzio, the soldier, rogue, hedonist and symbolist poet.
    — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Be a night owl For many, Berlin’s legendary party scene is the holy grail for hedonists everywhere.
    — National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Kit is a bit more of a hedonist, with plenty of casual hookups under his belt and weed on his nightstand.
    — Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In broad terms, a hedonist is someone who tries to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.
    — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
  • As the words suggest, present hedonists live in the moment, without much thought of any consequences of their actions or of the future.
    — Dr. Lance Dodes, Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Two hedonists with a penchant for Jim Beam and bad decisions.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 19 May 2017
  • Because that mind-reading trick is handy and though Lestat may be a hedonist, Louis sees a bigger picture.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Within the first six weeks, Joan proved not only to be a lusty eater but a very social and cuddly baby who loved long warm baths, in other words, a hedonist in the making.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • This is the burger for hedonists (particularly those who have time to take a nap right after).
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Women can be hedonists too, after all, and can delight in things that may shorten our lifespan.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Among the decadent fresh pastas, a hefty rigatoni is a hedonist’s delight, studded with guanciale batons fried to a crunch, the fat coating each ridged tube.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Affleck, with blond hair and a goatee, plays d’Alencon, an insensitive hedonist, with something close to glee.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In turn, Vegas provides a playground where the average person and the hedonist can engage in the sublime, the superb and the spectacularly over-the-top.
    — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Whether the recipient is practical and all about ease or a hedonist and a lover of the finer things, these spectacular stocking stuffers are fool-proof.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2022
  • To compare Isa and Dorothy might, at first, seem like a false equivalence—what do an academic in her thirties and a 21-year old hedonist really have in common?
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Danny is the sort of hard-partying, hard-drinking hedonist who wakes up with multiple undressed women in his bed, while Wihlborg refers to his body as a temple and disdains liquor and carbs.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Like a lot of his clients, the chef, Cliff Grubin, used to be a hedonist but has since swapped self-destruction for self-care, specializing first in juicing and eventually branching out into raw food.
    — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • The musician and actor were forced to abandon their campsite by foot as torrential rains turned the Nevada desert, which hosts the annual hedonists’ festival, into a mud bath.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Madison’s other best friend from college, free spirit, and charming hedonist.
    — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 11 Apr. 2019
  • The historic cafés that served a generation of true hedonists have succumbed to the vigilance of federal prohibition agents.
    — Lillian Symes, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • One founder, Roger Somers, was an accomplished saxophonist, rogue architect and larger-than-life hedonist.
    — Damian Panetta, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • His Bill isn’t a fratty hedonist so much as a man too psychologically compartmentalized to face his own misdeeds.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Ahmed is referring to the era in Tangier's history, beginning in the interwar period and peaking in the 1950s, when the city served as a licentious playground for a motley assortment of artists, socialites, and hedonists.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Resorts along the Strip and beyond aim to attract the next generation of hedonists — millennials, and the likeminded — keen on technology, contemporary art, food and the outdoors.
    — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019

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