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  • verb Present participle of luxuriate.

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Examples

  • In this ad supporting the cotton industry, the idea of luxuriating in an overstuffed closet is connected with cotton clothing.

    Pushing the Basics 2008

  • Ralph Mainwaring was, as his son had said, "luxuriating" in a superb reclining chair, his eyes half closed, enjoying a fine Havana, but the attorney's words seemed to produce the effect of an electric shock.

    That Mainwaring Affair

  • As the consciousness of his apostolic calling was fully developed in him, and never for one moment forsook him, it imparted a zeal and a restless energy to him, which made every kind of luxuriating in dreams and visions and every form of idleness a physical impossibility.

    The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903

  • (?) sheets, would disillusion them; and it is a very serious question whether they would apply the term "luxuriating" to the weather in May,

    The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

  • As I argue in my new book, even if there are a thousand different ways for these two people to thrive, there will be many ways for them not to thrive -- and the differences between luxuriating on a peak of human happiness and languishing in a valley of internecine horror will translate into facts that can be scientifically understood.

    Sam Harris: Can there be a science of good and evil? Sam Harris 2010

  • Our crew flew as passengers (deadheaded) all the way to Bangkok in first class, luxuriating in being pampered and catered to by our friends.

    Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool" Helen Davey 2010

  • Thousands of couples were snug in their beds, naked, warm, luxuriating in the first rays of what promised to be a sunny spring day.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • Our crew flew as passengers (deadheaded) all the way to Bangkok in first class, luxuriating in being pampered and catered to by our friends.

    Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool" Helen Davey 2010

  • You have to admire the joy of one of the four men soaring through the familiar "little swans" variation from "Swan Lake," his smile beaming to the balconies, wide-mouthed in exhilaration and -- in contrast to his colleagues, who were shooting him well-timed disapproving looks -- luxuriating like a little boy in the sheer thrill of flying through space.

    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances Sarah Kaufman 2010

  • As I argue in my new book, even if there are a thousand different ways for these two people to thrive, there will be many ways for them not to thrive -- and the differences between luxuriating on a peak of human happiness and languishing in a valley of internecine horror will translate into facts that can be scientifically understood.

    Sam Harris: Can there be a science of good and evil? Sam Harris 2010

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