Sample Sentences foravocation (auto-selected)
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For almost any other vocation or avocation—singer, potter, zookeeper, any doctor apart from a surgeon—it wouldn't have mattered.† (source)
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After my bomb avocation, I became the organizer of the supercolossal fruit roll.† (source)
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"Avocation," Alessandro interrupted.† (source)
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When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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My early years as a naturalist were free and fascinating, but as I entered manhood and found that my avocation must now become my vocation, the walls began to close in.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Other avocations.† (source)
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The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Judges cannot be too separate from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws.† (source)
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On that morning when Magua led his silent party from the settlement of the beavers into the forests, in the manner described, the sun rose upon the Delaware encampment as if it had suddenly burst upon a busy people, actively employed in all the customary avocations of high noon.† (source)
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As an avocation it was fine, but not as a career.† (source)
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Her avocations above having shut out all noise but what she created herself, she knew not that a visitor had arrived within the last few minutes, till, on entering the room, the first object she beheld was a young man whom she had never seen before.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Yet he was pursuing his ordinary avocations, smiling mechanically to fellow-tradesmen, and arguing with bargainers—as bereaved men do after a while.† (source)
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