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

To read a paragraph by Henry James — a single one can sprawl across pages — is to luxuriate in linguistic excess.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Even as I luxuriate in the future this way, rolling anticipation around in my mouth, I think of something else.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

The emotional side of one's nature luxuriates in an atmosphere in which the ethical side becomes languid and relaxed.

From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank

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

Across from me, George Felix luxuriated in the vibes.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 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

One luxuriated on a fluffy bedspread by a picture window overlooking Manhattan; another perched on a banister newel post, master of his empty household.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022

For the first few days at Princeton, the boys kicked back and luxuriated in the posh surroundings of the hotel and country club.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

The case for cultivating attention—and luxuriating in works of power and beauty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

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

He unwrapped his mind from his body, separated the two, while he lay in the trench, pressing himself into the mud, luxuriating in how close and connected he was to the mud.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie