All 10 Uses
indulge
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Sister Carrie
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- That's east Then he went off into the longest speech he had yet indulged in, concerning the lay of Chicago.†
Chpt 2indulged = enjoyed to excess
- Chapter IV THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY: FACTS ANSWER WITH SNEERS For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high flown speculations.†
Chpt 4 *
- He was thinking of a full career of vanity and wastefulness which a young girl might indulge in, and wondering how Carrie could contemplate such a course when she had so little, as yet, with which to do.†
Chpt 4indulge = enjoy to excess
- Such conversation as was indulged in held the same relationship to the actual mental enactments of the twain that the low music of the orchestra does to the dramatic incident which it is used to cover.†
Chpt 12indulged = enjoyed to excess
- He entered, expecting to indulge in an evening of lightsome frolic, and then lose track of the newcomer forever.†
Chpt 13indulge = enjoy to excess
- Of late, seeing the airy grace of the ingenue in several well-constructed plays, she had been moved to secretly imitate it, and many were the little movements and expressions of the body in which she indulged from time to time in the privacy of her chamber.†
Chpt 16indulged = enjoyed to excess
- You mustn't think because I indulge you in some things that you can keep everybody waiting.†
Chpt 22indulge = enjoy to excess
- And she—she had scarcely enough pin money to indulge in such outings as this a few times a month.†
Chpt 32
- Little license was allowed the chorus in the matter of conversation, but, nevertheless, some was indulged in.†
Chpt 39indulged = enjoyed to excess
- The newspapers, and particularly the Sunday newspapers, indulged in large decorative theatrical pages, in which the faces and forms of well-known theatrical celebrities appeared, enclosed with artistic scrolls.†
Chpt 43
Definitions:
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(1)
(indulge) to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)