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.

  • At 31, she has already had more ad hoc laurels lavished on her than many legends receive even posthumously.

  • Early reviews lavished praise on the New York Times "Foreign Affairs" columnist's study of globalization: "The author uses his skills as a reporter and analyst to conduct a breathtaking tour, one that possesses the exhilarating qualities of flight and the stomach-hollowing ones of free fall" (Richard Eder, the New York Times ). Recent reviews have been considerably cooler.

  • Charles II never saw the palace on which he lavished so much money (the royal coffers expended £57,000, a fortune at the time), but he created the foundation of what we see today, with its amazing ornamental plaster work and carved wood paneling.

  • The soon to be ex-husband of a makeup woman for Oprah Winfrey also says he couldn't compete with the trips and gifts the generous talk show host lavished on his wife, according to the Globe . "Any time I tried to talk to her, she would cut me short and say she was being elevated to a higher level," the husband says.


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