living it up
Example Sentences
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But the allure of four years spent postponing adulthood, avoiding responsibility and living it up is enough for many high school graduates to choose college.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Elsewhere, we check in on how a freshly liberated Mitch McConnell is putting on his zoot suit and spats and living it up a little.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2024
The pigs in Animal Farm start to act more and more like humans - living it up in the old farmer's house, while the rest of the animals toil away, often cold, hungry and over-worked.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2023
It’s the same effect that viewing an Ernie Barnes painting can have — you want to be inside his soulful depictions of crowded juke joints and dance halls, living it up while getting down.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023
And all this time her mother had been living it up in California.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
