Example Sentences

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He said she was an "emotional parasite" who fed off the couple's despair and "luxuriated" in offering them false hope.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

Every summer in the mid to early aughts, instead of getting a job or hanging out with my friends, I luxuriated in months of unfettered internet access on the computer already in my bedroom.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

Following the death of co-founder Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode returned to L.A. for an emotional two-hour show that luxuriated in a sensual gloom.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2023

One luxuriated on a fluffy bedspread by a picture window overlooking Manhattan; another perched on a banister newel post, master of his empty household.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

I flung back my thin cotton sheet and stretched my arms to the ceiling and luxuriated in the chill air.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly