Example sentences for: indulgence

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

  • It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.

  • Children, especially boys, are seen as a blessing and are treated with indulgence, fussed over by mothers and grandmothers.

  • Instead of indulgence, 40-year-old fashion seems to need taming.

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

  • 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.


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