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

The money he is lavishing on Mademoiselle Louise, whence does it come?

From My Strangest Case by Boothby, Guy