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• When it comes to the Middle East, presidents can’t resist indulging in a gasconade.2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry gasconade
• If you’re overly indulging in bed rotting, reach out to a trusted friend or professional for support.2024 August 28, Angela Buttimer, Dennis Buttimer, “Productivity is important, but so are rest and recuperation: JOYFUL DAILY”, in Atlanta…. From the entry bed rotting
• Use your fame to indulge your daughter's hobbies or why even be famous?2024 February 13, Elizabeth Logan, “Channing Tatum Brought His Daughter Everly to an Anime Premiere Like the A+ Dad He Is”, in Glamour. From the entry A-plus
• Indulge in the delightful flavors of Chinese cuisine with our Nanpie recipe.2023, “Nanpie-Crispy Chinese Pancakes”, in Fusion Food, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024. From the entry nanpie
• Even today, when they're home, the siblings indulge in a friendly game or two.2022 July 27, Srinivasa Ramanujam, “'Feels like a festival': Praggnanandhaa on Chess Olympiad and meeting Rajinikanth”, in The Hindu. From the entry bullet
• Veteran journalist Jackie Calmes says political journalists are failing the public when they indulge "both-siderism."2021 October 24, “The "both sides" problem with American news coverage”, in CNN. From the entry both-siderism
• Clicking the crosses like a long line of kisses finally indulged.2020 December 11, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Is your browser window full of open tabs? Time for a digital declutter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry tab
• He loved dogs, indulged by Antius’ kennel composed of Neapolitan mastiffs and molossians, original Roman war dogs.2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, in The End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry Molossian
• Along with the raising of koinobori, children indulge in kashiwa-mochi sticky rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves.2016, Lawrence Winkler, Samurai Road, Bellatrix, →ISBN. From the entry koinobori
• Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation. From the entry beflirt
• “Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.2015, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56. From the entry liberosis
• Orchidelirium accurately reflected the social values of the people rich enough to indulge in it.2015, Richard Mabey, The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination. From the entry orchidelirium
• Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.2013, Ann Gimpel, Earth's Requiem. From the entry chortling
• Everyone should indulge in a formal afternoon tea at least once while in London.2010, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's England 2011: With Wales, page 165. From the entry afternoon tea
• The inhabitants said that they indulge in galamsey because there are no other alternative livelihood sources.2008, The State of Human Rights in Mining Communities in Ghana, page 58. From the entry galamsey
• Let's go and indulge in Popdogs and Big Sars spiders, and then head on home.2008, Gaynor McGrath, “Chapter 14”, in Lemniscate, Transit Lounge, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry popdogs
• Please permit me to tell you that I have never yet indulged in scandalosities of that kind.2004, Nikolay Gogol, translated by Robert A. Maguire, Dead Souls, Penguin Books, page 210. From the entry scandalosity
• Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.1998, Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction. From the entry suet
• To indulge in hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian tergiversation is not to show your erudition: rather, it is to be superficial.1997, Steven George Krantz, A primer of mathematical writing. From the entry hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
• In other words, English dramatists continued to enliven their work by indulging in parallels, examples, and personatings.1995, Dale B. J. Randall, Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660, page 377. From the entry personating
• Of course because she was not a nymph she did not indulge in nymphly activities with fauns.1992, Piers Anthony, The color of her panties. From the entry nymphly
• The King has been said to indulge in a process called Triangulation.1961, Gerald Abrahams, “Kings and Ascending Pawns”, in Technique in Chess, London: G[eorge] Bell and Sons, →OCLC; republished New York…. From the entry triangulation
• No roughtalk was ever indulged in when Amos was their guest.1946, Sigurd Jay Simonsen, chapter V, in The Mongrels, New York, N.Y.: Diana Press Publishing Co., →OCLC, pages 48–49. From the entry roughtalk
• Lincoln once reprimanded a young army officer for indulging in a violent controversy with an associate.1936, Dale Carnegie, “Part 3, Chapter 1. You Can't Win an Argument”, in How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 137. From the entry vitiation
• It’s the time when Madam Housewife indulges in the sacred rite of Spring cleaning.1930 February 20, “For Spring Cleaning”, in Crystal Lake Herald, volume 54, number 8, Crystal Lake, Ill., page three. From the entry cleaningware
• There were no red eyes, no signs of secretly indulged grief.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 57. From the entry decorum
• You wait until I'm off the campus if you've got to indulge in high jinks.1912, Lester Chadwick [pseudonym; Howard Roger Garis], “Hitting a Teacher”, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine: Or Pitching for the Blue…. From the entry high jinks
• Though fond of a joke, he never indulged in immoderate laughter.1910, Richard Alexander Streatfeild, Life Stories of Great Composers: A Collection of Biographies of the Greatest Masters of Music, Theo.…. From the entry overprecise
• You indulge in the grief to a certain point, but then you have to be a little bit Pollyanna.”2017 November 12, Miranda Sawyer, “Björk: ‘People miss the jokes. A lot of it is me taking the piss out of myself’”, in The Guardian. From the entry pollyanna
• Last Week Tonight helps its audience indulge in collective outrage.2016 January 5, Conor Friedersdorf, “Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry Blue Tribe
• He indulges in conversations in loud tones and unchoice terms.2014, Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver, The Colonial Journals. From the entry unchoice
• Let me indulge in the floccinaucinihilipilification of EU judges and quote from the book of Amos about them.2012 February 21, Jacob Rees-Mogg, parliamentary debates, column 787. From the entry floccinaucinihilipilification
• It's one I indulge in several times a day.2012, PZ Myers, Reason Rally speech, 24 Mar 2012. From the entry wrathy

Meaning of indulge

1. verb To yield to a temptation or desire.
2. verb To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
3. verb To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.

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Questions about indulge in a sentence

How do you use indulge in a sentence?

Indulge is used as a verb. For example: “He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge.”

What is a short sentence with indulge?

“Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.”

What does indulge mean?

Indulge means to yield to a temptation or desire.