Example Sentences

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Walker, Whittaker’s husband, was a protégé of the famous artist Frederic Leighton, who is known for his ubiquitous “Flaming June” painting of a woman in a bright orange gown curled luxuriantly in repose.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

The grossest comic line in “Endgame” — a joke that feels like a nod to Beckett’s luxuriantly crude friend James Joyce — belongs to Hamm.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

After all, the irrigation water and poisonous chemicals necessary to keep the playing fields luxuriantly green at all times are abetting ecological disaster.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022

“However luxuriantly he lived in heaven, Mather had not lived affluently on earth, and had lost much,” Dr. Silverman wrote.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2017

But the cat made no answer, simply stretched luxuriantly and walked away.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman