How To Use Lavish In A Sentence

This gorgeous, homemade tiki fireplace complete with smoking nostrils is lavishly documented in this build log. Boing Boing: February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives
You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
They rebuilt the house on an even more lavish scale than before.
He struck me as a sincere and romantic person that hadn't had the chance to find love and instead had enjoyed the attention the women had lavished on him.

There was also a live concert of indigenous music and a lavish banquet.
It's not the affection that she enjoys, but rather the lavish gifts that are tossed her way.
This restaurant offers a buffet with a wide selection of traditional boerekos such as tomato bredie, chicken pie and a lavish carvery, as well as Malay curries and bobotie. Muti
He threw some of the most lavish parties Fort Worth had ever seen.
Their lavish do was paid for by a glossy magazine. The Sun
Each image in this lavishly illustrated book is accompanied by a detailed explanation.
She receives lavish gifts and letters with armorial seals from far-away places, possibly from a lover.
The Defendant engaged in frequent and expensive foreign travel with his wife, went out to numerous restaurants, and made lavish use of chauffeur driven limousines all at the Company's expense.
I've seen no convincing evidence of any slavish imitation, at least until now.
But he had always been a sentimental kid at heart, and was probably just jealous because I wasn't lavishing him with attention for a change.
An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event, because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
She'd been a bit too lavish with the salt, so the soup didn't taste nice.
Much of that cash indirectly funds the lavish lifestyles of the royal family. Times, Sunday Times
The winners were announced at a lavish ceremony at the city's arts centre yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Have a lavish dinner, and your cook will cook. Times, Sunday Times
If you're not ready to spoil your pet with lavish gifts and gourmet treats just yet, start small.
Extravagant weddings, lavish dinner parties, luxurious luncheons, you name it and I attended it.
She lavishes attention on those silly little dogs.
The Toronto art-rockers have a tendency to go for the extreme, whether it is a lavishly orchestrated children's record or a rock opus telling the story of the Group
There was one exception to his lavish generosity.
I do not dare to call slavish that which is royal. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The couple married in a lavish ceremony in May. Times, Sunday Times
The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing.
It should start giving inducements that it now lavishes on businesses locating to the inner sanctums of Bradford to all outlying regions.
On the rewards: Apparently, Cristiano "lavished" her with expensive gifts including a designer handbag and an Armani belt. Kickette Blog
The venue is purpose built for rituals and ceremonies, with appropriately fabulous acoustics, lavish trimmings and colourfully costumed officiants.
The aria, "Ombra leggier," is fairly lavish in its texture of vocal embroidery, and has always been a favorite number on the concert stage. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even! Marcella
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
It was in his time that the use of rosewater as a flavouring for food came into vogue in the lavish and sumptuous cuisine of the Arabs.
Care was lavished just as much on the symphony's softer underbelly. Times, Sunday Times
They rebuilt the house on an even more lavish scale than before.
Just like the lights, the lavish seafood buffet on board isn't to be missed. Times, Sunday Times
Everything else in the novel slavishly follows a simple formulaic adventure plot.
Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact. Times, Sunday Times
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
The couple married in a lavish ceremony in May. Times, Sunday Times
But side by side with that history of inflation from the infinitesimal to the immense is another development, the change year by year from the shabby impecuniosity of the Camden Town lodging to the lavish munificence of the Crest Hill marble staircase and my aunt's golden bed, the bed that was facsimiled from Fontainebleau. Tono Bungay
Several meals out have been lavishly enjoyed by the couple and their family at this stage!
It was lavishly furnished, and behind its wide oak desk, sat a burly and stout man.
This arises largely and insidiously from the slavish adoption here of virtually all Americanisms - some invaluable, the majority deplorable.
I wanted something small with big eyes and a strong rasping tongue to lavish me with affection. Times, Sunday Times
Just like the lights, the lavish seafood buffet on board isn't to be missed. Times, Sunday Times
Is it quite strange being at a lavish party one day and then digging tomatoes the next? The Sun
We followed her through a series of large, lavishly furbished rooms that each put my entire house to shame.
SHE'S used to putting on lavish frocks in period dramas with multi-million pound budgets. The Sun
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
Not only have they been booked solid for months for convention week, but their meeting rooms are jammed with lavish receptions.
In their place are lavishly appointed, spacious and airy new ships. Times, Sunday Times
Neither his friend's pathetic loneliness, nor the inducements he so lavishly offered, would have tempted Gerrard to leave the capital had it not been that he had ascertained from the Nawab that the _jaghir_ which he had granted to Rukn-ud-din as the Rani's representative lay in the direction in which Charteris was now to be found. The Path to Honour
The provincial governments are not far behind in their slavish adherence to the OECD's dictums on how to run your government.
Behind her, there was another torch lit and another, until the great room itself was filled with lights and illuminations to bewilder even the lavished of all Romans.
Within weeks of taking up the position she demanded 50,000 of public money for a lavish garden party for diplomats. The Sun
Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
The lucky quartet have now been happily rehoused in conditions much more lavish than they were used to.
Its employees take home bigger paychecks and more lavish benefits than most of the city's private employees.
Imagine nature's bounty matching up to the lavish interiors of the chateau.
Within weeks of taking up the position she demanded 50,000 of public money for a lavish garden party for diplomats. The Sun
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Bourchier, apparently had charge of the boys for a time, but Richard was later entrusted to the Earl of Warwick, whose lavish household was said to support 20,000 retainers.
The couple married in a lavish ceremony in May. Times, Sunday Times
a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
Burying it all under a thick shell of bluster, bullying, slavish adherence to protocol and discipline.
What I don't want them to be are 'toys' subject to the whims of their parents, who are lavished like a teensy-weensy but ever-so-cute- dog would be. Three cheers for Elton, say I
For example, instead of putting a lavish bed into the bedroom we bought a standard divan bed and had a headboard made.
I walked into a lavish guest bedroom with a four-poster bed and heavy velour curtains.
lavishly decorated
Members of Congress are appalled by the prospect of taxpayer funds going to companies lavishing such undeserved largess on such a group of demonstrated failures.
There were various celebrations honoring the gods, often accompanied by lavish banquets.
But he lost most of it on spread betting and a lavish lifestyle. The Sun
Gold leaf was lavished on their walls while the country was on the verge of economic collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
Face flushed, smile lavish, he rose to help her unpack the breakfast and partook with no little appetite. EVERVILLE
His text is full of redundant capital letters and is lavishly verbose.
There is something picturesque and original in the first sight of a place like Arras, or St. Omer, with the rich and lavish greenery, luxuriant trees, banks of grass by which the 'fosse' and grim walls are masked. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
Any time your children show good manners - which is at the heart of being considerate and kind - lavish praise on them.
We were avoided by all the staff we saw and astonished at the lavish spread laid out for brunch, including an enormous cow on a spit, roasting in preparation for the evening's event.
The study, by the independent market analyst Datamonitor, found that people freed from the ties of their offspring and often at the peak of their careers will splash out on lavish treats for themselves.
As on the fish serving fork, the terminal of the fork is formed by a thick quahog clamshell with a tiny crab on it, and the stem is lavishly encrusted with marine elements.
They were lavished with gifts and festive treats. The Sun
The exhibition, beautifully chosen and arranged by Marilyn Symmes, is accompanied by a lavish monograph DelMonico Books/Prestel and the Zimmerli Art Museum devoted to Ms. Snyder's print oeuvre. The Lady of the Wild Things
The only trace of her personality was a lavish tea set on one of the tables. Times, Sunday Times
Some of his business failures were as spectacular as his lavish lifestyle, which was legendary.
The pictures, inset right, show the lavish interior of an identical villa nearby. The Sun
How we then found room for the lavish selection of cheeses, pear chutney and home-made warm oatcakes is still a mystery.
Some highlighted the editorial space lavished upon the big advertisers in the magazine 's glossy pages. Times, Sunday Times
Either the valorization of accumulation, profit, and the subjection of human beings to mechanistic systems will wind down into the sort of dystopia so widely and lavishly depicted to scare us witless; or we will awaken from our trance, take a deep breath to dispel the catecholamines, use our big neocortices to recognize that we still possess the resources, intelligence and skill to enact a redemptive vision—and then do it. Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy
We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
She wore a lavish lilac fishtail dress made especially for the occasion by her mum.
Despite lavishing millions of dollars on his campaigns and outspending his opponents, his political ambitions have met with little success.
Patches of contemporaneity sprouted here and there but the general concert menu had not changed in generations and, despite lavish subsidy, there was no public demand for reformation.
The winners were announced at a lavish ceremony at the city's arts centre yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
You don't trouble about my being what you call slavish when it's you that profits by it! Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
Gone were the lavish decorations that had adorned the walls to celebrate their arrival that first time, but even so it was still far too overly decorated for Matthew's taste.
It is characterized by a greater licence in the use of counterpoint, and by a lavish use of passaggi and acciaccature to express the affetti of this modern music.
I only wish for a small wedding, no gifts or lavish food or gowns, just my family and their blessings.
The sets were lavishly grungy: all rusting metalwork, peeling plaster and torn posters.
His lavish past has left its mark financially, and the creditors are now tightening the metaphorical noose.
The firm, which built a lavish headquarters in Ocala, Fla., outlasted much larger rivals to become the 12th largest mortgage lender when it collapsed in 2009, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. Rare Conviction Highlights Hurdles for Prosecutors
distributed gifts with a lavish hand
The lavish hotel jaunts come after years of budget cuts hitting MoD manpower and equipment. The Sun
It is a powerful protective antioxidant and lavish amounts of the best quality olive oil can be consumed without risk.
You nod and smile with every paragraph, and wish the story would unroll into a novel, breaking the boundaries of the book, streaming in gaudy tapestries, out through the door and into the blue wide yonder - to the place where awards are distributed and happy critics fall over themselves to lavish praise (this story did not win any awards, by the way) Why am I so excited about this? "Constellations", ed. by Peter Crowther
On Labor Day, Heather and Ted were married aboard the Queen Mary in a lavish ceremony replete with Edwardian-era costumes, bagpipers and Scottish kilts for the groom and his friends.
The medium-weight, alembic distilled vodka immediately washes the palate with a lavish array of raspberry flavors that rivals the real thing.
Higher again, upon a terreplein, are lines of tanks laid out with all that lavishness of labour which distinguishes similar works in Syria: it is, however, difficult to assign any date to these constructions. The Land of Midian
Not as lavishly talented as Coulter, the bullish midfielder ran himself into the ground with an aggressive never-say-die 60 minutes.
It has lavish 1920s costumes and boneshaker cars. Times, Sunday Times
After enjoying the breathtaking views along the east coast for about an hour the dinner gong chimed and all went below deck to feast on the lavish buffet provided by this 5 star establishment.
As always, the booklet is lavishly produced. Times, Sunday Times
The film featured lavish costumes and spectacular sets.
Their lavish lifestyles featured numerous overseas properties, wine collections and a luxury yacht. Times, Sunday Times
The Fatherland Party was lavishly financed by Rhineland industrialists, but it was no mere front for the ruling classes.
Much of that cash indirectly funds the lavish lifestyles of the royal family. Times, Sunday Times
It is lavishly furnished with outstanding collections such as Chinese porcelain and Renaissance paintings.
These cliff-like structures tower above the pavement, presenting a lavish display of cut-stone decoration and detail.
Is it quite strange being at a lavish party one day and then digging tomatoes the next? The Sun
For all you know, their lavish lifestyle may be financed by a string of debts.
The American press lavishes attention on efforts of top execs to maximize their profits, equating their net worth with high moral character.
In the city's lavish beaux-arts facades and lobbies, farewell smooches and the rustle of tipsy last minute fumblings, still linger faintly in the air today.
Their lavish lifestyles featured numerous overseas properties, wine collections and a luxury yacht. Times, Sunday Times
The months ahead seem rife with arduous ER shifts, lavish vacations with bosom friends and endless opportunities to glam up for nocturnal lounging.
And on the day she was singled out, wealthy contributors cast generous, lavish gifts into the temple treasury. Christianity Today
Extra daughters were sent off to live in respectable refinement at convents, so that the family would not have to dower them as lavishly and divide the family patrimony.
Enchanted by her presence, he lavishes her with attention.
But critics have attacked the BBC for lavishing public money on non-programming activities at a time of massive cost-cutting in the organisation.
The manuscript's decoration is lavish: it contains 46 full-page miniatures, painted headpieces and initials, and over a thousand gold letters.
And on the day she was singled out, wealthy contributors cast generous, lavish gifts into the temple treasury. Christianity Today
That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. ' The Old Manor House
This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song. The Alhambra
I am not suggesting for one moment that there is any moral equivalence between Tyson and Mandela, but a slavish adherence to the legal process ends up with the baby and the bathwater both getting chucked out.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
Both managers lavished praise on their players for serving up a worthwhile spectacle.
But I should add that I’m a big believer in teaching children and anyone who’s just learning to write in English slavish adherence to grammatical rules. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kids These Days
Gone were the lavish sophisticated dinner-parties of Dr Alex Jardine's pre-war episcopate. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Many parish churches were extravagantly rebuilt, and lavished with vessels and ornaments which foreign visitors thought worthy of a cathedral.
Over the course of the three-hour meeting, which climaxed with a lavish lunch of lamb and goat meat, reporters called in news about the press conference on their satellite phones. The Longest War
The evening was a lavish affair with glorious food and an endless supply of champagne.
Despite what the lavish government publicity campaign says, nothing has changed.
The lavish family home was a 17th century manor with a 300ft fountain the key feature in its vast grounds. The Sun
It is the perfect replacement for the lavish dinner party and an ideal entertainment solution for austere times. Times, Sunday Times
At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence. Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book
Along with the industrialists and merchants of Glasgow and Edinburgh, they assembled in Edinburgh dressed lavishly in tartan, wearing kilts, singing Robert Burns songs.
Luckily, Subterranean Press/PS Publishing decided to get together and co-publish a lavish, dense, and beautiful based on the ARC edition of these seminal stories in one massive volume inside a terrific cover by Edward Miller, sporting introductions by John Scalzi, Joe Hill, Richard Matheson and Mark Scott Zicree. Archive 2009-07-01
At present, so slavish is the attitude of nearly the whole British press that ordinary people have very little idea of what is happening, and may well be committed to policies which they will repudiate in five years time. As I Please
Had the administration paid heed to public opinion, not out of slavish deference but out of respect, we would've seen a different tax cut, and, with any luck, a sustainable popular majority for conservatism.
The King's open-handed attitude to royal display also partly accounts for the style of masque costumes because, although he did not perform in masques himself, lavish expenditure on his clothes set a precedent at court.
What Fox and the right mean by liberal indoctrination is anything other than slavish conformity to RIGHTWING propaganda Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes
So saying, the indignant Sage nevertheless plunged the contemned pieces of gold into a large pouch which he wore at his girdle, which Toinette, and other abettors of lavish expense, generally contrived to empty fully faster than the philosopher, with all his art, could find the means of filling. Quentin Durward
That his endless permutations jar the sensibilities of lavishly paid footballers is hardly in itself a cause for complaint. Times, Sunday Times
They had to compete with lithographic or photo-mechanical printing techniques and were therefore well executed - sometimes in deluxe printing with such lavish techniques like mica or embossing.
Many speak critically of the lavishness of the modern day meals post the breaking of fast iftar, or footor, as it's know in the Gulf. Global Voices in English » Qatar reflects on spirit, practice of Ramadan
With all the attention lavished on big cases by the media, have such appearances become obligatory and, as a result, changed the rules that lawyers must follow?
The financial rewards were far from lavish. Times, Sunday Times
Gold leaf was lavished on their walls while the country was on the verge of economic collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Divorcing it of its context would strip away much of that heady period glamour to produce a diluted facsimile - even with slavish adherence to the original scripts.
Botany had lavished there its most elegant drapery of ferns of all kinds, snap-dragons with their violet mouths and golden pistils, the blue anchusa, the brown lichens, so that the old worn stones seemed mere accessories peeping out at intervals from this fresh growth. The Village Rector
The people on both sides who slavishly follow the ideology WITHOUT remembering the humanity of those who believe differently only succeed in dehumanizing their opponants. Nancy Reagan illuminates Kennedy-Reagan friendship
The event is being produced on a lavish scale with a mammoth three-tier stage, professionally erected sets, light and sound effects and detailed period costumes.
What perversity would inspire a busy corporate spokesman to lavish devotion on such an inert and - let's face it - steadfastly unlovable personage for more than two decades?
Roosevelt, the most powerful man in the world at that time, lavished attention on our closest ally while virtually ignoring the tinpot dictator of a small, weak country who was once silly enough to declare war on our ally.
And much praise has been lavished on the volunteers and service personnel who kept things running smoothly. The Sun
The questions come against a background of public money being lavished on green initiatives. Times, Sunday Times
I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars
He was a lavish philanthropist, endowing hospitals and libraries as well as the famous art gallery.
She receives lavish gifts and letters with armorial seals from far-away places, possibly from a lover.
And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
And much praise has been lavished on the volunteers and service personnel who kept things running smoothly. The Sun
His munificence was in proportion to his vast wealth (derived chiefly from his property in Cardiff), and innumerable poor Catholic missions throughout Britain, as well as private individuals, could testify to his lavish, though not indiscriminate generosity. The Third Marquess of Bute: Catholic Convert and Patron
With its detailed narrative, lavish photography and all-star cast, this was more of a short film than an ad.
In what must have been music to the ears of the tourism managers here, a couple of leading upcountry magazines were lavish in their praise for the State's tourism initiatives.
But when I read Jon's letter again I saw he was recommending not a slavish imitation but an attempt to be plain-spoken and honest. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
They wed nine months ago in a lavish 300,000 ceremony. The Sun
And on the day she was singled out, wealthy contributors cast generous, lavish gifts into the temple treasury. Christianity Today
However, not everyone in the community is enamoured by the lavishness of the monument and some describe it as an eyesore.
It was one of the most lavish weddings I've ever been to.
But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and Isabel has a fair face and a queenly dowry. The Last of the Barons — Complete
True, beyond lavish praise, Los Angeles has always been a place of dreams and metaphors.
The questions come against a background of public money being lavished on green initiatives. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes they cannot afford much, and in times of crisis, even when they are lavish it does not feel like enough.
The hotel lobby was lavished with fancy furniture and expensive pictures hung on the wall.
In Mr. Black's case, prosecutors had alleged that Mr. Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc., and other executives supported lavish lifestyles by siphoning off millions from the company through bogus management fees and noncompetition agreements as Hollinger sold off many of its smaller newspapers. High Court Sides With Skilling, Black
But Kenan Malik argues that slavish adherence to the multiculturalist approach denies us our freedoms and diversity.
The lavish praise is only possible because the book note is riddled with factual errors and misleading innuendo from start to finish.
Then there are the high-class prostitutes who can work from home or work as escorts; they charge higher fees and can live a lavish lifestyle.
But he lost most of it on spread betting and a lavish lifestyle. The Sun
Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town.
Upon these burses much ornamentation is lavished, and this has been the case since medieval times, as many existing examples survive to show.
Christian Lacroix is throwing a very lavish and very select party.
It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
Have a lavish dinner, and your cook will cook. Times, Sunday Times
Nor were the Charms of her Conversation less amiable than those of her Person: Her indulgent Father, though in his Youth he had lavish'd the best Part of his Patrimony, and had little to depend on but what accrued from a Post he held at Court, was now so good a Husband in other Things, as to afford her a very liberal Education. The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress
No expense is spared on costumes, which are lavish and made in-house, often to designs commissioned from artists and stars of the fashion world.

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