revel
verb (used without object)
to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed byin ).
were reveling
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past progressiveof revel.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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On Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood this week, people were reveling in Pride month, with all its rainbow flags and ribald humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Brown and Tatum — Boston teammates — were reveling in a back-and-forth duel during a stretch of the second half.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
The sensations of wind and sun were heightened in the absence of phones and computers; we’d left them in Lefkada and were reveling in a more basic form of connectivity.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Now Adams and his wife, Cindy, who had just moved to New York after decades in Alaska, were reveling in their avocation: baseball.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2014
It wasn't two hours before long-haired people were inviting dad to dinners, and the same night he was taken to a den where a lot of anarchists were reveling, and dad reveled till almost morning.
From Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
