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

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 McCabe, James Dabney

He depreciated the praise they were lavishing upon him.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)