Example sentences for: indulgence

How can you use “indulgence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Granted, one can't get into terrible trouble with an indulgence now and then, assuming one is eating conscientiously, but to inhale a whole meal of rich food is counterproductive.

  • From Dewar's Profiles to Miller Time, a drink or a smoke has more often than not been portrayed as a reward for hard work, an indulgence that the achieving bourgeoisie earns the right to allow itself.

  • It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

  • In 1786 Robert Burns used it in his poem, Epistle to a Young Friend, in which he, interestingly, warned against casual sexual indulgence: I waive the quantum o' the sin, / The hazard of concealing; / But, och! it hardens a' within, / And petrifies the feeling.

  • I begin to wonder whether fondness for gambling correlates with general indulgence, and dislike correlates with asceticism, and decide that they probably do.)


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