Example Sentences

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Kim, absorbing North Korea’s first major combat losses in many decades, has lavished surviving families with banquets, gold medals and new Pyongyang apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The Hollywood star moved to Madrid with his Spanish wife Alejandra Silva in 2024 and has lavished praised on the city in interviews.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Infantino has lavished praise on soccer-hosting heads of state and has built a deepening bond with Saudi Arabia since a December 2017 visit to King Salman, Prince Mohammed’s father, in Riyadh.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

NFL star Travis Kelce has lavished praise on his rumoured love interest, Taylor Swift, for her internet-breaking appearance at his game last Sunday.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

Madame Baldimer lived on Rue Neuve-Vivienne, in a suite of rooms worthy of a petite-ma�tresse upon whom fortune has lavished its favors.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de