indulge
verb (used without object)
to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed byin ).
am indulging
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present progressiveof indulge (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If you think I am indulging in fantasy about the trip, how can you explain that Charley knew it was over too?
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
I am indulging, for once, in the luxury of absolute candour.
From Five Little Plays by Alfred Sutro
Nor let them suppose that when I charge them with apathy in this good cause, I am indulging any feelings of personal disappointment, or moved by any fitful, fretful, or angry thoughts towards them.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
I—I am indulging in a stroll and—and my mind wandered, as did my feet.
From Mary Louise in the Country by James Allen St. John
I am indulging in the expensive amusement of Building, though not on a very large scale.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
