Example sentences for: revel

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

  • Since these may be the final few days before real new facts about Flytrap emerge, let's take a last chance to revel in the Baroque.

  • They appear to revel in the delivery of punch lines that are totally unintelligible--not, I hasten to say, because of a culture gap or a diminution of (this viewer's) auditory acuity but because of essential lack of clarity of expression.

  • (Republicans revel in quoting JFK to Democrats, and especially to the Kennedys now in the Senate and the House.)

  • Would he revel in or lament Gifford's two-year emasculation by humiliation from his wife because he had a one-night stand with a megamammaried miss?

  • Like other blockbusters, it may suffer from a "perilously thin" plot (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ), but that's "the least important thing" about the movie ( Newsweek ). Instead, reviewers revel in its deadpan humor, stylish costumes, and comic performances, particularly that of Tommy Lee Jones--"registering levels of cool that would cause most actors to snap in half" (Lane).


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