lavish
adjective
expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion.
is lavishing
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present progressiveof lavish (3rd 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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The news media is lavishing praise on the new guidelines issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland to limit when prosecutors go after journalists’ phone and email records.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
He is lavishing high salaries and perks on his huge campaign staff.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2020
But African-American music offers “such a rich, yet still underexplored, heritage,” Mr. Boriskin said in an email, that it warrants the attention the organization is lavishing on it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2014
The event — coupled with a fund-raiser being organized for this coming Sunday afternoon by the group — underscores the extra attention that Mr. Thompson is lavishing upon the community.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2013
Just think of the daring impudence of the man telling me that while he is lavishing hundreds on his vices and wickedness, the family is to starve to enable him to bear the expense.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
