lavished

past tense of lavish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lavished Meanwhile, for all the time lavished upon Tom’s grief or Robbie’s, far less attention is directed toward some of the other characters in their periphery, who’ve struggled just as much if not more. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lavished
Verb
  • Here in our yards, long years of earth have been hefted by hand and heaped up on tarps.
    Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
  • However, so far, the chaotic policy rollout has paralyzed some businesses and heaped even more pressure on US manufacturing.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Those of us who spent a lot of time at our grandma’s house can spot Tupperware containers in two seconds flat.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • More of their budgets are spent on health care than what's spent by younger working adults, for example.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Inside the airy, tiled space in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood, diners linger over baskets of still-warm croissants, artfully poured café au lait, tuna carpaccio, and a dangerously good French toast topped with berries and chantilly cream.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Kingdom has poured resources into logistics, mining, renewables, technology, creative industries, and advanced manufacturing—aiming to be a producer, not merely a consumer, of sophisticated goods and services.
    Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Accepting the biggest award of the night on Sunday, September 7 at New York’s UBS Arena, Grande took the stage with the video’s director Christian Breslauer, and showered her fans with both appreciation and inspiration.
    Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mount Fuji’s dormant threat Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak, erupted roughly every 30 years and 318 years since its last eruption, known as the Hoei eruption, showered ash across Edo.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Lavished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lavished. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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