lavish
adjective
expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion.
was lavishing
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past progressiveof lavish.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At the time, the Newark Star-Ledger reported that Trump was lavishing money on the project, “flying in masons, carpenters, landscapers and bulldozer operators from around the world and housing them on-site.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
Trump was lavishing praise on the winner of a look-alike contest.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2016
Because while the great Mischief Maker in the Sky was lavishing useless inches upon the striker, he left the giant galoot short on the basic self-preservation skills that the rest of us take for granted.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2011
Next morning, of course, Don Carlos was the hero of the hour, and everyone was lavishing compliments and congratulations on him for having tackled an armed burglar single-handed and getting the better of the desperado.
From Bandit Love by Juanita Savage
It was nearly a year's value of the subsidies which Great Britain was lavishing on the general war.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
