luxuriate
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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
What we should really do is go over to YouTube and pull up the isolated vocals from “God Only Knows,” which allow you to luxuriate in Wilson’s obsession with the human voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
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
They stay with me for minutes after I wake up and I luxuriate in them, but I forget them soon.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
His own intentions remain unclear in a story that luxuriates in a physical and metaphorical haze, and that prefers to hint at mysteries rather than solve them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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
While many Hallmark movies are largely locked in, location wise, to Toronto and the rest of Ontario, “A Perfect Pairing” fairly luxuriates in Australia’s vineyard beauty.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
The coco-palm in particular luxuriates in that stern solum, striking down his roots to the brackish, percolated water, and bearing his green head in the wind with every evidence of health and 142 pleasure.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The spoken language luxuriated in rolled r’s and Z’s.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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It’s a Sunday morning, and in the tradition of Sunday mornings, I’m luxuriating in having nowhere to go and nowhere to be.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
It begins innocently enough: the two sit down to steaks at Paddy’s, luxuriating in the rare act of sharing a proper meal.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
For the next few minutes Desdemona was silent, luxuriating in the warm foot bath.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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