Example Sentences

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Both the Tories and Labour are indulging in expectation management.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2024

Consumers heading out more after lockdowns are indulging in smaller luxuries such as makeup and perfumes even as they put off bigger purchases because of rising inflation and risks of a recession.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2022

“I would say that people are benefiting,” he said, “but these are who are indulging in fraudulent cotton.”

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2022

They are indulging in magical thinking — a mentality marked by excessive optimism and a dash of egocentrism.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2021

According to their natures men are indulging in flippant flings at a vanished superstition, or grieving silently over the disappearance of the ancient light which ruled the night of earth.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber