Example sentences for: indulges

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

  • For him, botany was the road not taken, and here he indulges his continuing interest.

  • He stays up all night in unwholesome places, indulges in risky behavior that threatens to make decent camels' insurance premiums go up, and surely hasn't phoned his aged mother in years.

  • The pathologist makes do with red wine until an effective drug is available, the biochemist discards the bread from her sandwiches, and the mathematician indulges in designer chocolate with a clear conscience.

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • Dr. Johnson's definition, curiously, marks one of those rare occasions when the drudge rebels against his drudgery and defiantly indulges in a moment's humor or whimsy.


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