[
UK
/ɹɪɡˈeɪl/
]
[ US /ɹɪˈɡeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈɡeɪɫ/ ]
VERB
-
provide with choice or abundant food or drink
She treated her houseguests with good food every night
Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating
How To Use regale In A Sentence
- Always a late riser, I'd wake up around eleven every morning to brunch at a deliciously set table where my ‘roomie’, as I called her, would regale me with the tale of her day so far.
- We regaled ourselves on caviar and champagne.
- Wish to regale on tasty salad from tropical fruit and berries?
- Patrick-street, Dublin -- the lady who used to boast of her "bag of farthin's," and regale herself before each encounter with a pennorth of the "droppin's o 'the cock. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
- He would regale us of tales about the rich and famous, their peculiar ways and their strange vices.
- Over and over again he regales the reader with proof that snakes, spiders, crocodiles and creepy-crawlies have acquired a taste for tourist blood.
- India was a tour that he had his heart set on ever since he was regaled with anecdotes by his father.
- The sitting-out area could be a haven for non-edibles, scented beauties every one - pots of lemon verbena at fingertip level, regale lilies at nose height, night-scented stock and nicotina.
- After last night, we really didn't need to be regaled with other upchuck anecdotes.
- Champagner-Oper" [ "Champagne Opera."] and in order to justify this title our amiable Intendant proposes to regale the whole theater with a few dozens of champagne in the second act, in order to spirit up the chorus. Letters