Sample sentences for AVOCATION

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a hobby or other activity separate from one's work or profession

She took the job to support her avocation as a painter.

—while her aunt returned to the house and to those avocations which the visitor had interrupted.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Yet he was pursuing his ordinary avocations, smiling mechanically to fellow-tradesmen, and arguing with bargainers—as bereaved men do after a while.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
It is impossible to keep the judges too distinct from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
Judges cannot be too separate from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
For almost any other vocation or avocation—singer, potter, zookeeper, any doctor apart from a surgeon—it wouldn't have mattered.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
'It is a good heart,' said Nicholas, 'that disentangles itself from the close avocations of every day, to heed such things.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
"Avocation," Alessandro interrupted.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The majority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lord Steyne used to say to him by way of a good day when they met; and indeed that was now his avocation in life.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Left to herself for the evening she sat a while under the lamp, her hands empty, her usual avocations unheeded.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
There were two reasons for that: her job as slave labor at the cancer ward and her avocation as a second-degree black belt, a Nidan.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Mrs. Sanborn was the president of many charity organizations and this had given her an addiction to autocracy such as no other avocation could develop.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
He'd climb to the summit those of his avocation respected most, and he'd dedicate his climb to Christa's memory.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
He was a poet and a goldsmith by avocation, made his living as a limo driver.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Left to herself for the evening she sat a while under the lamp, her hands empty, her usual avocations unheeded.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
I was an artist by vocation, and now by avocation—although it's been considerably more challenging to get my supplies in a place like this.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins, my avocations had been largely increased.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
After my bomb avocation, I became the organizer of the supercolossal fruit roll.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

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