luxuriate

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

I do luxuriate in awaking to no news deadlines, playing pickleball when court fees are low and cycling to the beach on a weekday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

They offer a vacation destination for the mind, a world in which to luxuriate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

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

This bizarrely inventive novel luxuriates in sunshine-soaked fear, showcased in that most terrifying of all teen settings: summer camp.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

A pastiche of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Edith Wharton’s fiction, the story luxuriates in the tragic fate of America’s wealthiest man, Benjamin Rask.

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022

Below Stoughton the river winds along in most graceful curves, for the most part between banks from six to twenty feet high, with occasional pocket-marshes, in which the skunk-cabbage luxuriates.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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

He was too big to lie down in the bathtub, but he sat in it and luxuriated as best he could.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

Whether it was staying with the boyfriend of the month, or in a foreclosed home, or luxuriating in a mothballed beach house, I’ve done fine.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman