lavish
adjective
expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion.
were 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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Companies were growing and bosses were lavishing ever-higher pay and perks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
But for now, officials were lavishing water on the city’s Page Belcher course, as Oklahoma baked in a massive heat wave that is also scorching parts of Texas, Kansas and South Dakota.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
Proper coders’ brains were lavishing their downtime on finding ways to track the fermentation of their starter culture and then make graphs about it.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2019
It seems as if he were lavishing over strange juxtapositions of beauty and decay all the sensuous fascination of Keats and the lingering suggestiveness of Shelley's lyrics.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
Her friends, who, during her prosperity, were lavishing their attentions on her, now that misfortune had overtaken her, refused to recognize her, and thrust her from their doors without a penny.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
