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  • Whatever choices I made, Jake would indulge in the latest video games.   (source)
    indulge = enjoy to excess
  • How will you answer the fact that you're jeopardizing the case and your position by indulging in a personal relationship with a suspect?   (source)
    indulging = excessively giving into desire
  • Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.   (source)
    indulge = give into a desire in a manner that is not good
  • I prepare another before I retire to a tree where I continue sipping, eating rabbit, and even indulge in one of my precious crackers.†   (source)
  • It made me feel like a kid, protected and indulged, and no self-respecting Russian grandmother would have it any other way.†   (source)
  • In fact, he rarely indulged in any of the syrupy liqueurs—and certainly not those that were colored green and reported to cause madness.†   (source)
  • During her sophomore year of high school, Lori's boyfriend stole some PCP, and the two of them returned to Mamaw's to indulge.†   (source)
  • Plus, in Caribbean households, boys were often indulged like little princes.†   (source)
  • "Please, indulge me," he said.†   (source)
  • Then perhaps you would indulge me this little game?†   (source)
  • Like most uglies, Tally had often indulged the fantasy that one day she might be on the Committee, and help decide what the next generation would look like.†   (source)
  • The Messengers, though — there were four in the class, wearing their snappy white tunics and blue sashes — were indulging in a peculiar habit Reynie had noticed.†   (source)
  • She gained weight, indulged herself endlessly, and became the soul of pampered self-absorption.†   (source)
  • Although he was tired, Arnold was feeling good; he was even in a mood to indulge the lawyer, Gennaro.†   (source)
  • "Indulge me," Nehemia pressed, smiling tightly.†   (source)
  • Now that it mattered to him, to get the timing of his leap adjusted to my lifting him even higher, why couldn't I simply indulge him without criticizing him?†   (source)
  • The parents were long asleep, no need to indulge ritual pleasantries.†   (source)
  • They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.†   (source)
  • I can indulge once in a while.†   (source)
  • So we're forced to indulge in an underground market of technology and inventions to help better ourselves.†   (source)
  • In any case, thank you for indulging me.†   (source)
  • Though she had refused to indulge them, she knew, even then, what the correct response was.†   (source)
  • They were bitten down to the quick though he could not remember when he had restarted this habit nor any time when he indulged it.†   (source)
  • One certain evidence of this is the confession of Tituba, the slave of Reverend Parris, and another is the behavior of the children who were known to have indulged in sorceries with her.†   (source)
  • Would you indulge me?†   (source)
  • A girl has to indulge.†   (source)
  • I was relaxed and personable, I was as thin as a rail, I did not indulge in self pity or negative thinking of any kind, I was an excellent salesman—everyone said so—and business was so good that what I spent on drugs, I scarcely missed.†   (source)
  • With liberation soclose, it would be madness to cut that thread by indulging in reckless and provocative activities.†   (source)
  • Root was tempted to let them wrestle for a while, but now wasn't the time to indulge himself.†   (source)
  • And that if I continued to indulge my talents, I'd turn exactly into my mother.†   (source)
  • They had a special language: regression, acting out, hostility, withdrawal, indulging in behavior.†   (source)
  • But you can't indulge in wanton violence.†   (source)
  • Silenus has committed the ultimate act of non-communication," wrote Urban Kapry in the TC'v Review, "by indulging himself in an orgy of pretentious obfuscation."†   (source)
  • There was no point in indulging in more terror, more anxiety.†   (source)
  • They indulge their husbands, if anything.†   (source)
  • And we were always in search of some sonofabitch in a turban who had for too long been indulging in his favorite pastime of blowing up U.S. Marines.†   (source)
  • At 701 Sixty-third Street in Englewood Julia Conner put her daughter to bed and did her best to smile and indulge the child's delighted anticipation of Christmas.†   (source)
  • Bailey turned to the audience, shaking his head, indulging them.†   (source)
  • To indulge us, some of them even fell down and writhed convincingly on the Club House's vast manicured lawn.†   (source)
  • They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis.†   (source)
  • Not for the firsttime it occurred to him that Ian's possession of the woman Geoffrey loved just as dearly (if secretly) allowed Ianto indulge in an odd sort of selfishness and an almost womanly hysteria that Geoffrey himself must forgo; after all, to the rest of the world he was only Misery's friend.†   (source)
  • That they wanted to eliminate him for indulging in "Lawful Union Activities."†   (source)
  • He indulged me.†   (source)
  • But then, of course, I hasten to add, there are many valets who would never dream of indulging in this sort of folly - who are, in fact, professionals of the highest discernment.†   (source)
  • I indulged in the hope that only the ground-floor flats, set on fire as a deterrent, would burn, and the tenants would come back as soon as their papers had been checked.†   (source)
  • You are straying, indulging in whimsy.†   (source)
  • But Nathaniel isn't going to indulge his tormentor.†   (source)
  • Whatever we are now, I can't indulge thoughts about how attractive he is.†   (source)
  • Rand asked, hopeful eyes, and Marybeth and I both indulged him.†   (source)
  • " "Indulge an old man's whim," Yueh said.†   (source)
  • Instead of feeling grateful as I should have, I indulged myself with resentment: So I have to be a cripple and be on the verge of a cancer diagnosis to get a little help around here?†   (source)
  • I even tried my best to indulge her increasingly bizarre and irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • She wanted to believe this, and so she indulged herself and tried to be swept up in it.†   (source)
  • When she was assigned a locker next to mine, I could indulge my jealousy four times a day.†   (source)
  • But since that would be breaking her vow to eat fast food no more than once a month, she wasn't going to indulge.†   (source)
  • Patch gave a sly smile and indulged my request.†   (source)
  • Matt smiled at her the way you'd indulge a child who just told you the sky is falling.†   (source)
  • He shuffled off to the bedroom to indulge in an afternoon nap.†   (source)
  • Religion was a ritual that I indulged in for my mother's sake and to which I attached no meaning.†   (source)
  • I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful.†   (source)
  • With four girls so close in age, she couldn't indulge identities and hunt down a red cowboy shirt when the third daughter turned tomboy or a Mexican peasant blouse when the oldest discovered her Hispanic roots.†   (source)
  • He indulged himself in the feeling that he was being shown his new digs to ensure that they met with his approval.†   (source)
  • Maybe because Nyx is sick and tired of you being selfish, spoiled, indulged, hateful ….†   (source)
  • Through the window, I can see the quadrangle and the guys indulging in a snowball fight.†   (source)
  • Adding to their fatigue, many of the firemen indulged freely on Sunday in the use of intoxicating liquors….†   (source)
  • But never for a minute did I allow myself to indulge in that fantasy—I knew that I would go to prison.†   (source)
  • As had been learned in missions over Hanoi—in which the B-52 had participated and sustained SAM (surface-to-air missile) damage—the best method of attacking a heavily defended target was to converge from all points of the compass at once, "like the enveloping arms of an angry bear," the squadron commander had put it at the briefing, indulging his poetic nature.†   (source)
  • The Hat Creek outfit was hardly known as a trail-driving bunch, but on the other hand Captain Call was not a man to indulge in idle talk.†   (source)
  • We don't indulge ourselves in cheap and easy delusions, Sims.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it seems culturally insensitive to scold the poor for indulging in festivals, cigarettes, alcohol, or sweets that make life more fun.†   (source)
  • He and his wife indulged every photographer and cheerfully fielded calls from reporters at any time, day or night.†   (source)
  • Mustn't let them think we British ladies are so petty as to indulge in arguments on the streets.†   (source)
  • They were untied for meals, to use the toilet, and for the smokers among them to indulge their habit.†   (source)
  • As the boy grew she took him along with her as she indulged in her favorite pastime—fishing in the Licking River.†   (source)
  • I went to poetry and fiction readings and indulged in the wine and cheese.†   (source)
  • We both knew the plantation, and I had indulged in one of the greatest pleasures of a vampire, that of watching people unbeknownst to them.†   (source)
  • He had managed to avoid the snares of a routine, living as free and poor as a wandering minstrel, having never worn leather shoes, a tie, or a wristwatch, and indulging himself in the luxuries of affection, candor, shabbiness, and the siesta, for he was not accountable to anyone.†   (source)
  • The dance teacher applauds zestily as he finishes, and Phil, a blush appearing on his light skin, indulges a bow.†   (source)
  • But seeing something that resembled his own fangs sinking into flesh—not breaking skin, but biting nonetheless—sent Vlad's fangs shooting from his gums, and suddenly it was all he could do not to rip the girl from Kristoff's arms and indulge in every last delicious drop of her.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered I was indulging in this revolting display of saccharine emotion right in front of Fang.†   (source)
  • Please, indulge me.†   (source)
  • I accuse you of indulging in a filthy habit, Bledsoe!†   (source)
  • I bet you could do with a bit o' civilized company, such as might be provided by a pair of gentlemen such as us—well, I say us, but o' course Mr. Polegrave here does indulge in the questionable habit o' wiping his boogers on his sleeve, but bishops have been known to do worse."†   (source)
  • "Every brutal gratification can be so easily indulged in this place," wrote William Tudor of Boston, Washington's judge advocate, to his fiancee, "that the army will be debauched here in a month more than in twelve at Cambridge."†   (source)
  • Be thankful, mon cher, they might be caviar or those expensive drugs the rich indulge in!†   (source)
  • It was absurd how rarely he indulged in them.†   (source)
  • She was indulged—spoiled, she said—especially after her mother died.†   (source)
  • "Bite on this," the guard said, indulging in one last bleat of hopeless bravado, and then he did as he was told.†   (source)
  • I stuck with him not only because we could work well together, but because our teamwork was so automatic that I was free to indulge my romantic fantasies at the same time.†   (source)
  • "If she doesn't indulge in torture for personal pleasure, why didn't she do the sensible thing and hang me?" he asked quietly.†   (source)
  • My advice is to submit to whatever terms Prusias demands and hope that he indulges Rowan as a vassal state.†   (source)
  • The hermaphrodite had long been their master's special pet, indulged and favored, and the noble Yezzan's other slaves hated him for it.†   (source)
  • The nearest he comes to indulging in black culture is dancing to Chubby Checker.†   (source)
  • That's what you get, he thought, when you indulge yourself in weakness.†   (source)
  • In the midst of this, I indulged myself with a vision.†   (source)
  • But, how, pray tell, could I not indulge in a little kissing under those circumstances.†   (source)
  • Enchi was so drunk with rice wine that he had passed out in the parlor room, never making it upstairs, and Fujimori, who always grew quieter as he indulged, was sitting glumly among the regular working ladies, sipping at his porcelain drinking cup.†   (source)
  • A hundred and twenty thousand people work for F.A.I. Alessandro did not indulge Nicolo s lack of belief in himself.†   (source)
  • A farmer's son serving in the 1st North Carolina Infantry wrote to his father during another period of Confederate reverses: "Instead of indulging in feelings of despondency let us compare our situation and cause to those of our illustrious ancestors who achieved the liberties we have ever enjoyed and for which we are now contending."†   (source)
  • While he was up there, he indulged himself in a survey of his new property.†   (source)
  • And by indulging in excesses of jealousy and worry, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute skepticism and irresolution.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Barlowe was correct in her assertion that Dunwoody did not indulge in the vulgar practice of criminal defense.†   (source)
  • Not being equipped for that, Mike indulged in phony answers with skewed logic, or pranks like issuing pay cheque to a janitor in Authority's Luna City office for AS$10,000,000,000,000,185.†   (source)
  • To his favorite son, Zahir, he once remarked: "I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps."†   (source)
  • They were much more comfortable than the normal . crew quarters, but Tyler was spending so much time on the Business he figured he should indulge.†   (source)
  • Yet he moped and moped — not eating, not talking, indulging his misery as though it were a child.†   (source)
  • I indulged myself with the old-time stories because they evoked a feeling of comfort I remembered from my childhood at Laguna.†   (source)
  • Indulging in equitation, he called it.†   (source)
  • (To the grappling LOVERS:) All right, no need to indulge yourselves.†   (source)
  • She indulged a temporary fantasy.†   (source)
  • People could indulge in such whims, because they had both the time and the money.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should say she indulged in certain evasions which at the time were necessary in order for her to retain her composure.†   (source)
  • KELLER [EMBARRASSED]: Oh, Katie, we—had a little talk, Miss Annie feels that if we indulge Helen in these—†   (source)
  • It can't explain how it feels, though on the other hand it can't lie, build up its symptoms, or indulge in the pleasures of hypochondria.†   (source)
  • Unless I indulged in periodic daydreaming, I suppose.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Charlie was the baby of the family and had always been indulged and coddled.†   (source)
  • The little sad man with spectacles who sat alone at the neighboring table, deep in a book on the manufacture of ball bearings, might have deduced, bad he been listening, that Leamas was indulging a sadistic nature—or perhaps (if he had been a man of particular subtlety) that Leamas was proving to his own satisfaction that only a man with a strong ulterior motive would put up with that kind of treatment.†   (source)
  • He was curiously inconsistent, now indulging in uninvited confidences, now leaving the most innocent questions unanswered.†   (source)
  • Hannah, left alone, was grateful that we are animals; it was this silly, strenuous, good, humble cluttering of animal needs which saw us through sane, fully as much as prayer; and towards the end of these moments of solitude, with her mind free from the subtle deceptions of concern, she indulged herself in whispering, aloud, "He's dead.†   (source)
  • Men hurrying by stopped to stare inquisitively before moving on, idlers stood or sat around lazily indulging their curiosity.†   (source)
  • Not that he indulges in any of the deliberate temperamental posturings of the stage star.†   (source)
  • A friend of Benton's, on the other hand, wrote: I am sorry Mr. Benton indulges in so much profanity.†   (source)
  • And two people can indulge in imperviousness as well as in anything else.†   (source)
  • During this time she hardly ever indulged in her old fits of temper against her servant.†   (source)
  • It was, as I say, a little game we all indulged in to some extent.†   (source)
  • At the same time they indulge in musical outbursts, like songbirds.†   (source)
  • I think I could get some of that, he said, as if indulging a child's wish for bubble gum.†   (source)
  • His ascendants had indulged in hashish, but he preferred a different kind of gratification.†   (source)
  • "For six months," Silenus continued, "we have indulged you, Master Underwood.†   (source)
  • Although surprised, I refused to indulge my curiosity by questioning him.†   (source)
  • He must refuse to indulge such brain-sick fancies.†   (source)
  • Selling upscale fabrics in Flushing indulged her taste for glamour and sophistication.†   (source)
  • I'd been asleep for so long, I decided to indulge myself in a luxurious and prolonged pee.†   (source)
  • Inspector, I'm afraid I don't have time to indulge in your games.†   (source)
  • She sees crying as a sign of weakness, a garish appeal for attention, and she won't indulge it.†   (source)
  • Then she couldn't indulge herself anymore.†   (source)
  • It seems I won't be sleeping tonight, and I shall have to indulge if I am to keep awake."†   (source)
  • Ever since he'd stopped to pick her up in the snowstorm he'd been indulging himself foolishly.†   (source)
  • The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections.†   (source)
  • I couldn't even muster the energy to indulge my hobbies—playing guitar, woodworking, reading.†   (source)
  • Diamond Jim Brady dined with Lillian Russell and indulged his passion for sweet corn.†   (source)
  • I indulged in my self-pity, the nastiness inside me curdling like putrid milk.†   (source)
  • Briony indulged herself by looking through the window in a spirit of farewell.†   (source)
  • " "The answer remains no. I indulge you shamefully in most things, not in this.†   (source)
  • The audienced applauded again, and Stenton indulged them, then again asked for quiet.†   (source)
  • Indulging my grandfather's obsession with them had made me worse, not better.†   (source)
  • This was no time to indulge in human concerns or personal questions.†   (source)
  • Jump on people, sniff crotches, or indulge in any other socially unacceptable behavior.†   (source)
  • If you will indulge me by listening, I would be most grateful.†   (source)
  • Hatsue felt she did him no favors by indulging his self-pity, and he resented her for this.†   (source)
  • I am afraid he was very much indulged, not least by himself.†   (source)
  • He assumed I was indulging him because we were close to our destination, and he refused.†   (source)
  • He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against one another.†   (source)
  • He couldn't afford to indulge in that kind of thinking.†   (source)
  • Can't blame a fellow for indulging his imagination, though.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon Jackie took the girls outside to play while Mom indulged in a nap.†   (source)
  • And it seems their way of compensating is to indulge her and her brother.†   (source)
  • Has it only been a few days since I last indulged this not-so-bad habit?†   (source)
  • You think I like all that "thinking" I indulge myself in?†   (source)
  • If the Book does not exist, we have indulged a wild-goose chase.†   (source)
  • She didn't indulge him with the obvious question.†   (source)
  • The intended message is to indulge your curiosity, challenge yourself, experiment.†   (source)
  • The smee had indulged in many forms since the Director lifted his ban.†   (source)
  • I cannot allow you to indulge your anger and endanger everyone within this realm.†   (source)
  • She has not indulged in atrocities for personal pleasure," she said firmly.†   (source)
  • Not even sure if he indulged, I said I'd bring the toot if he'd bring the beer.†   (source)
  • Things had become too desperate now to indulge in the luxury of lying to herself.†   (source)
  • I nearly indulged myself until Lord Ammon reminded me that you have not yet earned such an honor.†   (source)
  • The girls indulged him with cries of "Ay, Papi."†   (source)
  • Our prospects are too precarious for you, me, or any of us to indulge in false pride.†   (source)
  • To do that, I'm hoping Illea will indulge my deepest wish: to have a Selection."†   (source)
  • However, he could no longer afford to indulge in such self-deception.†   (source)
  • There was no time to indulge in personal feelings; the information was suddenly everything.†   (source)
  • Reverting to his own language, he indulged in several more pungent oaths.†   (source)
  • We indulge in a taste of the monster, losing our clothes before we're finished.†   (source)
  • Let's just say he's a sweet, sweet man who likes to indulge in a little harmless sin on occasion.†   (source)
  • They indulge their emotions at any cost.†   (source)
  • I will go to any lengths, indulge in all venalities, to stop this planet from blowing itself up.†   (source)
  • "We are by no means willing to indulge a thought of your declining this important service.†   (source)
  • Let the culture indulge in cheap conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • Call was not willing to indulge him in any dramatics.†   (source)
  • Those were the days when good Methodists only indulged in Rook or Old Maid.†   (source)
  • She had a weakness for leather and bold colors that she could rarely indulge.†   (source)
  • But you must indulge your master, for we are approaching a beautiful moment.†   (source)
  • I've only indulged maybe twice a day, and yesterday I completely ignored the monster's whining.†   (source)
  • He has greedily indulged in the pleasure of his own flesh by drinking the water.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances Conklin would be unlikely to indulge in a loud, heated argument.†   (source)
  • " "Don't I indulge your every whim?" he asked.†   (source)
  • We cannot indulge in theory, we have to deal with the practical reality of the moment.†   (source)
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