revel
verb (used without object)
to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed byin ).
had revelled
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past perfectof revel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She also said that Richman had "revelled in her freedom" since that day.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
Her daughter Mamie told me that Melvin and Licurtis had revelled in the land as kids, playing among the inky eels and conch shells.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
It seems an appropriate resting place for a man who had revelled in being a boy from a croft.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2015
In his prime, Le Carré had revelled in a Manichean universe of treachery and paranoia.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
To the Puritan the wilfulness of life, in which the men of the Renascence had revelled, seemed unworthy of life's character and end.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
