lavish upon

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Argentina's devastated fans, many of whom could not afford the luxury they chose to lavish upon themselves by making the trip to Moscow, must demand a complete overhaul of the national team.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2018

The Egyptian women are prodigious hairdressers and the variety of perfumes which they lavish upon their hair and persons, exceed all European custom and calculation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

But what was there in their presence to draw down the maledictions of the padre, which he continued to lavish upon them most unsparingly?

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

It has often been remarked, that, in Europe, a certain degree of contempt lurks, even in the flattery which men lavish upon women.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

The Germans proudly award it the epithet, "epoch-making," and its long-continued popularity affords good, if not quite sufficient, ground for the extravagant eulogies they lavish upon it.

From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander