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Example sentences for "lavishly"

Lexicographically close words:
laving; lavish; lavished; lavishes; lavishing; lavishness; law; lawbreaker; lawbreakers; lawbreaking
  1. The natural color in her broad, plump cheeks was heightened by rouge, applied lavishly over a heavy coating of white powder.

  2. The ship's morning toilet had been completed, and the decks, darkened by the sluicing to which they had been lavishly subjected by the acting second mate and his watch, were drying fast and recovering their sand-white colour in the process.

  3. To-day he displayed lavishly all the brilliant attributes which were at his command.

  4. Herbert had spent money lavishly on all sides and had brought into use every advantage made possible to him through his long years of diplomatic work.

  5. The child had grown dear to her, for Muriel was a charming little dot, and Selma had already begun to enjoy the maternal delight of human doll dressing, an extravagance in which she was lavishly encouraged by her husband.

  6. The chorus has very little to do, but a delightful feature of the work is to be found in the series of beautiful dance-tunes lavishly scattered throughout it.

  7. I lavishly powder some pieces of hard-boiled white of egg with the potent drug, just as I did with the eggs of the Bluebottle.

  8. That public granary, lavishly stocked by death, will become a busy factory of fresh life.

  9. Read carefully any of his more lofty tragedies, and ponder the general truths there so lavishly scattered; and you will find that an immense proportion of those apophthegms have a moral bearing, often a most solemn and impressive one.

  10. The speech which describes Arcite's misadven[54:1]ture has been much noticed by the critics, and by some lavishly praised.

  11. It is true that Best Society is comparatively rich; it is true that the hostess of great wealth, who constantly and lavishly entertains, will shine, at least to the readers of the press, more brilliantly than her less affluent sister.

  12. The 'possums had been caught early and fed in a lavishly hospitable manner, that they might wax fat and juicy for the feast.

  13. After breakfast my grandmother went to service and would return with guests who were to come to us after the Christmas sermon in the lavishly decorated village church.

  14. No, my dear," said the old man; "to give lavishly without discrimination is to put a premium on beggary and to subject yourself to imposture.

  15. Then having lavishly rewarded their cavalier two light-hearted girls rushed home through the night to Bridget.

  16. It did not occur to Caleb Landor that this was because he had given to the boy lavishly of everything except himself.

  17. I interrupt myself at this point to say that we do these things more generously and more lavishly than our kin beyond sea ever think of doing them.

  18. It is lavishly decorated with precious stones and surrounded by ex-votos.

  19. The interior, lavishly decorated with marble and inlay of verde antico, is incredibly vulgar in taste and contains, first chapel L.

  20. He was lavishly rewarded, made a Count, and given a house in Venice and an estate in the country.

  21. To compass her ends the artful Armida, whose charms have so lavishly been displayed that they have fired every breast, promises to belong to the warrior who will bring her Rinaldo's head.

  22. It was to procure its restoration that, in 1693, Cook, to whom Child had now relinquished much of his authority, had so lavishly expended the secret service money, some of which had been traced to Caermarthen.

  23. Party feeling was at the time very high, and accusations of bribery were lavishly flung abroad, but a closer examination appears to prove that these charges were unfounded.

  24. I have seen a lady lecturer urged and urged upon the public in a lavishly complimentary document signed by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and some others of supreme celebrity, but--there was nothing in her and she failed.

  25. Everywhere he was welcomed by great audiences, and everywhere lavishly entertained.

  26. The pictures or paint should be "spread abroad" freely or lavishly in the vicinity of caverns, and we know positively that no "paint" or pigment of human composition can be seen on the canyon walls.

  27. Of course we must object that the "walls" are really not walls and that the "paint" so lavishly spread upon them is not paint at all.

  28. Honours and places were now lavishly heaped upon him.

  29. Amazement, confusion and terror alternately occupied his distracted mind; the taunts and rebukes which El Feri had so lavishly bestowed, roused his anger almost to madness.

  30. Clemens did, in fact, sail for England on the given date, and was lavishly received there.

  31. He usually had a grand time on these trips, being lavishly entertained by the Canadian literary fraternity.

  32. Round the house were gardens where the treasures of our hot-houses were carelessly and lavishly scattered.

  33. Lavishly indulgent to her girls, she yet kept them thoroughly in hand, and won, if not their tenderness, at all events their affection and respect.

  34. In the last few months she had traversed a whole existence; repose was needful that she might assimilate all her new experiences and range in due order the gifts which joy had lavishly heaped upon her.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lavishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amply; aplenty; extravagantly; freely; fully; generously; graciously; handsomely; lavishly; liberally; profusely; unduly