Example sentences for: lavished

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

  • Of course, hysterical praise has always been lavished on finery by folk in the business ("It looks terrific, it's fabulous, it's YOU")--and not just in this century, but back through the two previous ones.

  • He lavished millions on palaces and mosques, blowing at least one million pounds sterling on gold and jewels for his Peacock Throne.

  • Given all the press attention lavished on the Year 2000 bug, it's hard to fathom that only USAT fronts Wall Street's Y2K test Monday.

  • "The same concentration of effort and the same plethora of assets lavished on the aerial war against Serbia must now be applied to the task of housing and caring for the refugees reeling out of Kosovo," it said.

  • While acknowledging Hussein's misdeeds--attacking Israel in 1967, hosting Palestinian terrorists over the years, and siding with Iraq in the Persian Gulf War--editorialists lavished excuses on him: He feared a Palestinian revolt if he didn't attack Israel in 1967, atoned for the 1967 war by sitting out the 1973 war against Israel, and allied himself with Iraq in 1991 because he feared an Iraqi invasion or collateral economic damage from the war against Iraq.


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