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Example sentences for "reveled"

Lexicographically close words:
reveille; revel; revelation; revelations; revelatory; revelers; reveling; revelled; reveller; revellers
  1. I truly reveled in the autumn splendor and my spirit possessed a vitality which had nearly been smothered by a mere four weeks' toil and stress.

  2. As I left the hallways of the junior high school which had, only three years before, appeared a massive array of corridors, I welcomed summer with customary gladness and reveled in the freedom that greeted my steps.

  3. Otherwise I reveled in the beauty I was shown today.

  4. I reveled in the hours spent with Norm and his wife; it was easy to be with them, for their life appeared low-key and free of pretense.

  5. Despite my thirst for knowledge, I reveled in the endless possibilities, knowing that I did not even touch the vastness of Being, and even less the essence of nonexistence.

  6. But it was the sort of evening when one thoroughly enjoys being restless and unhappy, and I reveled in my pain.

  7. She basked in it, she reveled in it; had she been a kitten, I think she would have purred in sheer physical enjoyment of it.

  8. Happie, on the whole and allowing for those days when the grasshopper is a burden, reveled in her tasks and sang about them all day long, getting brown and plump and prettier for her activity.

  9. Laura reveled in the opportunity for sentimental melancholy, composing a song entitled "Parting," according to her custom on all family events.

  10. Then the hush that comes upon the world in the midnight hours fell over the Poplars and I stood leaning against one of the tall pillars and reveled in it.

  11. And while the Town reveled in celebration of the new Goodloets, down in the Settlement like rejoicings were being held at the dance hall of the Last Chance.

  12. He reveled in the debating societies, and was always ready to thrash out any subject in wordy warfare against all comers.

  13. She reveled in a "jaunt" or a "day out," and her physical strength kept fatigue far from her.

  14. One would think you reveled in society if one only knew you in that phase.

  15. Gonzalo feeling quite sure of his wife, reveled in his sense of security, and a recrudescence of affection arose between the couple.

  16. Besides, Gonzalo, like all those of an excessively vigorous temperament, was born for dangers; he reveled in them as if he were certain that the life coursing through his veins was inexhaustible.

  17. Manasseh reveled in intoxicating dreams of the approaching glorious time for Israel.

  18. She had reveled in the mild foreignness of it.

  19. She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.

  20. She waited for him; she reveled in longing, and in a sense of guilt because she longed.

  21. Since there were no sweating passengers crammed in beside her, she reveled in the train's slowness.

  22. They reveled in it, winking, laughing, playing a kind of game in which light chased light through the deeps of color.

  23. There was a lull in the trial while everybody reveled in horror.

  24. Chum did the work for him, and reveled in the excitement of it.

  25. Ferris, on the other hand, reveled in the knowledge that his beloved pet was the center of more adulation than was any other dog in all the section.

  26. He fairly reveled in the discomfortingly tight caress.

  27. Babbitt did not ordinarily think much of privacy, but now he reveled in it, reveled in his valet, and purred with pleasure as he gave the man a tip of a dollar and a half.

  28. Paul was distressingly clean, but Babbitt reveled in a good sound dirtiness, in not having to shave till his spirit was moved to it.

  29. All of those great white pillars that front the mansions of Virginia, and in fact of the whole South, had their germ in the brain of Jefferson, who reveled in all that was Greek.

  30. They gloried in difficulties, reveled in the opposition of things, and smiled at the tug of inertia.

  31. Here is a portrait from the brush of Copley, who reveled in rich draperies and in the accessories of his portraits quite as much as in painting rounded arms, beautiful hands, and shapely figures.

  32. They fairly reveled in gold, whisky, fights, and fandangoes, and were unspeakably happy.

  33. Since he had so long exiled himself, having no use for what he had accumulated, he had now reveled in spending.

  34. Most of all he reveled in Amalia's music.

  35. Many of them reveled in the outsider's downfall, and contemplated the grit of their employer with satisfaction.

  36. And, listening, he reveled in it as men of his stamp will revel in such things.

  37. Last of all, three cups of tea spread the chronic stomach-folds, after which we reveled in the sense of fulness of the best meal of many weeks.

  38. Although I reveled in it now, the time was soon to come when weariness and hunger numbed my faculties into a dreary torpor in which the splendor was not seen.

  39. What was but a human necessity, rather concealed and discouraged than reveled in and exploited before Montaigne, has, after Montaigne, become the obsession and preoccupation of us all.

  40. For years she had reveled vicariously in the delights of morning.

  41. Claire reveled in the light-flooded dusk of these late autumn evenings.

  42. He reveled in its myriad-mindedness -- its adventures and exploits, its chivalry and romance.

  43. In all of these places he reveled in the beauty and grandeur of the scenery.

  44. The man rolled out slowly one of the long strips of parchment which he held in his hand; he gave it to Dumiger, who drew the lamp near him, and for a few minutes reveled in the ideas of freedom and wealth.

  45. Here is Krantz, your old friend Krantz, whom you have not seen since we were all at Bonn together: so I will drink with you as well as he did three years since, when we reveled in Rhenish.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reveled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.