All 5 Uses of
indulge
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- There was a time one would have received a bright and intricate response that would in turn have unfolded silly and weighty questions to which Emily gave her best answers; and while the meandering hypotheses they indulged were hard to recall in detail now, she knew she never spoke so well as she had to her eleven-year-old last-born.†
Chpt 1indulged = enjoyed to excess
- He rolled onto his side, eyes fixed and unseeing, and indulged a cinema fantasy: she pounded against his lapels before yielding with a little sob to the safe enclosure of his arms and letting herself be kissed; she didn't forgive him, she simply gave up.†
Chpt 1
- Briony indulged herself by looking through the window in a spirit of farewell.†
Chpt 1
- They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.†
Chpt 1 *indulge = enjoy to excess
- He assumed I was indulging him because we were close to our destination, and he refused.†
Chpt 3indulging = enjoying to excess
Definition:
to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable