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luxuriate

[luhg-zhoor-ee-ayt, luhk-shoor-] / lʌgˈʒʊər iˌeɪt, lʌkˈʃʊər- /


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They wait for hours to luxuriate in the atmosphere—and Grant Mohwinkel’s chemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

It’s about creating spaces where LGBTQ+ people can be visible but also feel safe to be in community, a moment to live without fear and luxuriate in collective joy.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025

Campbell writes, “To hear those two voices together, here on the island, was to luxuriate in an old ballad she only remembered in fragments.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

I luxuriate in the warmth of Phil’s arm holding me.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Before Kercher’s murder corkscrews their story, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” luxuriates in the postcard-perfect view from the apartment Amanda shared with Meredith and two Italian women.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025

And Strong, an enthusiastic cook, luxuriates in the bounty of fruits and vegetables growing around their home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

“Pacifiction,” the sixth feature by the Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra, luxuriates in the Polynesian twilight, as if the camera’s lens could absorb humidity and make it visible.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Here, finally, McEwan — who won the Booker Award in 1998 for “Amsterdam” — luxuriates in all the space he needs to record the mysterious interplay of will and chance, time and memory.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

The box luxuriates in this defile, springing in tree-like proportions from every ledge.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers

Conductor Roberto Kalb luxuriated in the rich orchestration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He said she was an "emotional parasite" who fed off the couple's despair and "luxuriated" in offering them false hope.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Every summer in the mid to early aughts, instead of getting a job or hanging out with my friends, I luxuriated in months of unfettered internet access on the computer already in my bedroom.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

Gustavo Dudamel luxuriated in his own warmly sympathetic recording of it with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

Boots luxuriated in the company of his mistress and her friend, and enjoyed being made much of.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026

Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Like everyone else at Crooked Con, Piker is luxuriating in what he thinks is a vibe shift.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

Rather than participants luxuriating in newfound free time, a Stockton, California pilot found that full-time employment actually rose among those receiving guaranteed income, while their financial, physical and emotional health also improved.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls


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