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Example sentences for "reveling"

Lexicographically close words:
revelation; revelations; revelatory; reveled; revelers; revelled; reveller; revellers; revelling; revelries
  1. A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house.

  2. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.

  3. As for Cicily, she sat silent, her eyes veiled, reveling in the glad riot of her thoughts.

  4. For the ten-thousandth time, he was reveling in the beauty of that oval contour, in the tender curves of the scarlet lips.

  5. We wandered on, turning our heads from one side to the other, I reveling in the delight of the others.

  6. He soon left off reveling in the sights and sounds of the cheerful schoolroom to devote himself to his book.

  7. Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

  8. He read and reread those quaint, stately tales and reverenced their beauty, while fairly reveling in the absurdities of that ancient day.

  9. The reveling foemen wreak but waste, A sodden poisonous band.

  10. Just at present her fancy was turned loose and madly reveling in these memories, while always above her wildest flights was the intoxicating certainty that there was no reason why they should not all be possible.

  11. The evil odors permeating the atmosphere in the vicinity are what might be expected from a people reveling in garlic and eschewing soap.

  12. The place was a veritable treasure trove for anyone interested in antiques, and she and her husband were just reveling in their finds, examining every article closely, and showing that their hobby was no mere pose.

  13. We have been reveling especially in the profusion of wild roses along the roads.

  14. Millions were to be impoverished that she and her husband might pass through life reveling in luxury and charioted in splendor.

  15. He was still reveling in an incessant round of feasting and dancing, flitting with his gay court from one to another of his metropolitan and rural palaces.

  16. The money came, the king little cared where from while reveling in luxury, and dancing and flirting with the beauties who crowded his court.

  17. Such humanity sliding into song, slides through the song, and makes the song an echo; such humanity reveling in painting, makes the painting only a shadow on the wall.

  18. And now that the ways of approach are open one would expect to find these woods and gardens full of admiring visitors reveling in their beauty like bees in a clover field.

  19. She was laughing with abandon, reveling in the freedom of the moment, when Granthope touched her on the shoulder and whispered: "Violet!

  20. Emmeline would call them spirits of the blast, reveling in the destruction it foretells!

  21. Percy was reveling in the idea of driving his mother and Miss Harcourt in a new barouche, and the rest of the party were to go on horse back.

  22. He was not a brawling, boisterous ruffian, reveling in the slums.

  23. No pope or president, rich in the world's respect; no prince or potentate reveling in the pride of sovereign power; no poet or philosopher bearing his blushing honors thick upon him ever equaled a blind donkey in impressive dignity.

  24. Then the rain began to abate and I sauntered down through the dripping bushes reveling in the universal vigor and freshness that inspired all the life about me.

  25. Also he gave public readings, reveling in the applause, the lionizing, which greeted him wherever he went.

  26. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten--he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks.

  27. He was reveling in the joy of battle and the lust of blood.

  28. I spent two wonderful months hunting game and reveling in the beauty and grandeur of that Rim Rock country, but I came out knowing no more about the Pleasant Valley War.

  29. There seemed to be some kind of pleasure in reveling in melancholy which her common sense told her had no reason for existence.

  30. Josephine was represented as having forgotten her husband, as reveling exultant with female vanity, in general flirtation; and, finally, as guilty of gross infidelity.

  31. But while Kedzie was reveling in the splendors of 164th Street her eye was caught by the gaudy placards of a moving-picture emporium.

  32. Skip went on the stand, reveling in his first experience of fame, basking in the spot-light like a cheap actor, and acting very badly, yet well enough for the groundlings he amused.

  33. The Pride and the Hope had come home for a week's vacation and were reveling in the house, which they now for the first time saw in order.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reveling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    festivity; gaiety; jollity; joviality; merriment; merrymaking; revel; revelry; triumph