Calling, which may or may not provide employment.
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Examples for "vocation "
Examples for "vocation "
1 Seeresses never refer to themselves: impersonality is a rule of their vocation .
2 Bookselling is our profession and our vocation ; we want to be open.
3 It's almost a Catholic calling to a vocation , to work in films.
4 For Evie, the case is more of a vocation than a job.
5 Choose upward, study the men in the vocation you think of adopting.
1 Pardon me, Madam; that is the avocation of a man of taste.
2 After the death of her mistress, Isopel carried on the same avocation .
3 Others, intoxicated by their passions, live in a perpetual avocation of thought.
4 Princess, I understand that it is your avocation to be a horse-breaker.
5 It's all part of the job, he said of his beloved avocation .
6 His statesmanship was discontinuous, being an interesting avocation rather than a career.
7 Carpentry was Tim's vocation, but fiddling was his avocation and dear delight.
8 They were a gay group of men, and hospitality was their avocation .
9 The avocation should be far removed from the nature of the regular work.
10 We might speak of the discussion of illness as the Beckman family avocation .
11 Bernardo and Francis pursued their avocation in a very different manner.
12 He threw aside his peaceful avocation and joined the Confederate army.
13 Winona viewed the latest avocation of her charge with little enthusiasm.
14 We are here because we have the avocation of nut growing.
15 Teaching was an avocation with her and not a bread and butter necessity.
16 Tatoucheff plays the piano with considerable skill but his real avocation is painting.
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