lavishing

Example Sentences

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Daphne and Eddie magnanimously turn the other cheek and then go back to lavishing one another with murmured compliments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Wall Street hasn’t exactly been lavishing the stock with praise lately.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

For much of his second term, Trump has seemed to bestride the globe, lavishing his attention on a wide range of international issues.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

But that zeal for lavishing cash did not carry over to the school’s athletic department, which ranked fourth from the bottom of the conference with just $16 million in donations over the same period.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

It seems as if he were lavishing over strange juxtapositions of beauty and decay all the sensuous fascination of Keats and the lingering suggestiveness of Shelley's lyrics.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.