Example Sentences

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He addresses his now absent father: “To survive you has flowered into my calling. I am basking in the light, and you can’t touch me.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2014

My parents came to see the children and make merry because I am basking in the sun of royal grace.

From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William)

Italy at last! and what I have all my life considered as the greatest possible felicity, is now begun, and I am basking in it.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix

I am basking in her smile like an insect or a bird!—Apropos to birds, we have, alas! no singing birds in Canada.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Gently, while the drenching dribble Courses down my sweltered form, I am basking like a sybil, Lazy, languorous and warm.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher