Example Sentences

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It imagines a queer life for William and Kate’s pride and joy as this young royal defiantly and decadently comes of age.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

The sugars make a beautifully cooked steak a little sweeter, while the smokiness makes a creme brûlée decadently complex.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2023

With that in mind, these flapjacks are vegan: decadently gooey, chocolate-flecked, flaxseed-studded, oat-filled bars of healthy-ish goodness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2020

Stories set to music, which Benjamin had generated so guilelessly as a child, were derided as facile, hidebound, and decadently nostalgic.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

They were holding piles of presents all wrapped decadently in striped paper and abundant ribbons.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser