Example sentences for: indulging

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

  • Of course, if a researcher tampers with the evidence, making a unilateral, unsupported claim or assumption that a word means something that it does not, then that does not constitute semantic change: it is what is known as dirty work at the crossroads, and M&S are indulging in a bit of mischief by suggesting that semantic change either has taken place or is taking place because they have some evidence that a certain change in usage had crept in.

  • It keeps other countries from breaking trade commitments that benefit the United States in exchange for keeping the United States from breaking trade commitments that benefit those countries, and it keeps all of us from indulging in the everyone-loses pattern of trade sanction and retaliation.

  • Critics bash his lyrics for their clichés and their misogyny, and Jackson for indulging in self-pity that bleeds into self-parody.

  • But there are two kinds of pleasure: the pleasure of doing, and the pleasure of not doing; the pleasure of indulging, and the pleasure of abstinence.

  • Theroux finds the British most hilarious when indulging in the rituals of empire ("dark comedy and absurdity," he calls it).


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