revelin a sentence
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The team reveled in their victory.
reveled = took delight in
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They reveled until dawn.
reveled = partied
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During her vacation, she reveled in the beauty of the wilderness.
reveled = took delight in
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I reveled in his disinterest.
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reveled = took delight
- Newspaper headlines reveled in it. (source)
- How he reveled in saving me. (source)
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We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.
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reveling = taking delight
- Improbably, he was particularly fond of speaking on cruise ships, sorting through invitations to find a plum voyage, kicking back on the first-class deck with a cool drink in hand, and reveling in the ocean. (source)
- Reveling in the removal of his Trace, Harry sent Ron's possessions flying around the room, causing Pigwidgeon to wake up and flutter excitedly around his cage. (source)
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Anne reveled in the world of color about her.
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reveled = took delight
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And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.
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revel = party
- She was certainly capable of that same self-control during a dinner conversation, and yet there she stood, giving herself over to her anger, almost reveling in it.† (source)
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- Today someone might interpret this behavior as a sign of anger, since the poor tot was stuck with a nanny against his wishes while the other family members reveled.† (source)
- In fact, all evidence suggested that Bogart preferred his drinking after midnight— when the orchestra had stopped playing, the barstools had emptied, and the revelers had stumbled off into the night.† (source)
- For much of that first year in law school, I reveled in the fact that I was the only big marine with a Southern twang at my elite law school.† (source)
- A few of the revelers passed close enough that the sickly sweetness from their bottles filled her nose.† (source)
- But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that.† (source)
- If anything, Adler seemed to revel in Williams's predicament.† (source)
- By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler's mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.† (source)
- There were ten or so members of the circus, all of them visible at all times, all of them wearing threadbare costumes that reveled in their antique humility.† (source)
- She taught me to revel.† (source)
- Peter-who'd been reveling in the miracle that here was Josie, again, like she used to be-watched her turn to Matt.† (source)
- Of course, Grandmother would have complained bitterly about the party revelers—and about such a "sundry" guest list, given the diverse personalities and social stations of a typical Dan Needham cast; but Grandmother would, at least, have been occupied.† (source)
- The Rat Man's face screwed up to look even rattier, as if he reveled in telling bad news.† (source)
- The tightness in her chest abated only slightly when she couldn't find Cain's face among the revelers.† (source)
- Jet-lagged and exhausted, we went to sleep early—or rather we went to our beds and lay in them with pillows covering our heads to block out the thumping cacophony that issued through the floorboards, which grew so loud that at one point I thought surely the revelers had invaded my room.† (source)
- Down by the river, the revels were only now beginning to dwindle and die.† (source)
- As he got out of bed, he reveled in the honor of the job before him.† (source)
- Allie knew by his silence that he was thinking about her and found that she reveled in it.† (source)
- They seem to revel in it, using their superhuman strength to toss other champions around like rag dolls.† (source)
- Long ago, before the war, before Wandsworth, he used to revel in his freedom to make his own life, devise his own story with only the distant help of Jack Tallis.† (source)
- Du Hai reveled in the new phrase he had learned from the newspaper.† (source)
- She crested the hill, reveling in the rush of escape, of freedom, of power—and then the torrent began.† (source)
- Others seem to revel in her humiliation.† (source)
- Revel in their victory, especially over me.† (source)
- Their tail whipped in the air, and their joined minds reveled in the experience.† (source)
- He was reveling in feelings he should not have allowed himself to feel.† (source)
- The elevation of this place seemed to magnify the heavens, and Mack reveled in seeing stars in such numbers and clarity.† (source)
- It might be argued that the Siamese-twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the reveling cosmos.† (source)
- I reveled in the feel of the ground through my shoes, the taste of the air, the quiet hush of wind brushing through the spring wheat in the fields.† (source)
- In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.† (source)
- I reveled in being Uncle Randy, the guy who showed up in their lives every month or so to help them look at their world from strange new angles.† (source)
- We revel in our collective misery but I also worry about whether my job will exist as long as I need it to.† (source)
- They darted past shocked and terrified late-night revelers, skirted rats and mice without stopping to feed, ignored birds nests.† (source)
- Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession.† (source)
- Across the town square I pedaled, over the canal on the Grote Hout bridge and along the Wagenweg, reveling in the thin winter sunshine.† (source)
- She wondered when he had last gotten a full night's sleep, one without tormenting dreams or long periods of dark wakefulness, listening to revels that had only become audible — and visible — to her in the last couple of days, as the Overlook's grip on the three of them tightened.† (source)
- The curandera arrived along with several Indians from her tribe, who began to weep for the deceased when she gave the order, and did not stop until the reveling was over three days later.† (source)
- Makes you stink, makes you think, she would say, reveling in how ugly that sounded.† (source)
- I had seen Lupito murdered ...I had seen Ultima's cure ...I had seen the men come to hang her ...I had seen the awful fight just now ...I had seen and reveled in the beauty of the golden carp!† (source)
- That was how the relationship ofjolly comradeship was born between father and daughter, which freed him for a time from the bitter solitude of his revels and freed her from Fernanda's watchful eye without necessity of provoking the domestic crisis that seemed inevitable by then.† (source)
- I often reveled in that feeling.† (source)
- In the harsh, hot wind, I heard Set laughing, reveling in his power.† (source)
- Basil had been returned to her, and she reveled in his presence.† (source)
- I curtsied, reveling in her fury.† (source)
- Knowing there were soap bars by the dozen, bacon by the rasher, and reveling in her shiny pots and pans and polished floors.† (source)
- It is a time to revel in the eternal sea and the warm rains that soothe us, as well as the verdant land that surrounds and keeps us.† (source)
- "There are ways for a human to join the faerie revels," Isabelle, who had been eavesdropping, put in.† (source)
- I pretend it's a tropical shower, shaking my head and reveling in it.† (source)
- It drove our neighbor Mr. Kramer to high blood pressure, but my father reveled in it.† (source)
- That this should happen here, in public, in the high revel of event—he feels a puzzled wonder that exceeds his aversion.† (source)
- As new revelers joined the celebration I was introduced as la niña de Baylee, and as quickly accepted.† (source)
- Yes, the Klan was a secret society, reveling in passwords and cloak-and-dagger ploys, but its real power lay in the very public fear that it fostered, exemplified by the open secret that the Ku Klux Klan and the law-enforcement establishment were brothers in arms.† (source)
- Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep.† (source)
- I felt good about myself and reveled in my new-found ability to handle my life independently.† (source)
- She meant well, but Julie reveled in gossip—from the salacious to the mundane—and often used her position as.† (source)
- I would revel in the complete darkness of B Dorm, listening to forty-eight other women breathe in a polyrhythm of deep sleep as I prepared the right measures of instant coffee, sugar, and Cremora.† (source)
- Old lawyers like Lucien who reveled in dirty tricks and ambushes hated the new rules because they were designed to promote fairness and transparency.† (source)
- But JFK studies each ward in the district, reveling in his role as the underdog.† (source)
- I revel in relief.† (source)
- It was the kind of fraternity reveler's voice that had made me feel that, as a student at Syracuse University, I might never fit in.† (source)
- From long and close association (in her solitary teens Dr. Finch had tried to make a scholar of her) Jean Louise had developed enough understanding of his subjects to follow him most of the time, and she reveled in his conversation.† (source)
- I think he reveled in it.† (source)
- Goldie didn't smother her son in sadness, but encouraged him to revel in life's joys.† (source)
- To revel in the pull, the attraction.† (source)
- The clear fall weather made the long days of work pleasant and Mortenson reveled in the tangible results every evening as he measured how many blocks they'd managed to set that day.† (source)
- Could I learn to revel in being a Mask?† (source)
- Only the most dedicated revelers had been in the streets when the explosions began, but sailors sleeping on the floors of wineshops had dragged themselves out and were making their way, with the rest of the curious populace, down to the docks.† (source)
- While the creatures revel in their new power, she steals the dagger and runs quickly to the Order.† (source)
- It was a clear, cool day and I reveled in the beauty of the Natal countryside; even in winter, Natal remains green.† (source)
- While she reveled in the excitement, she could anticipate the glory of the aftermath.† (source)
- Archie reveled in the moment, basking in Carter's admiration, Carter who had humiliated him at The Vigils meeting.† (source)
- He revels in his physical superiority even to a woman who is eighty.† (source)
- Kessell reveled in the moment.† (source)
- He may not revel in the pain he caused himself, but at least he could say that he chose it.† (source)
- My toes clutch the tiny blades, revel in the softness and the damp earth beneath my feet.† (source)
- So you saw Kwang in news spots talking with Hispanic youths at a boys' club in Washington Heights, amongst the revelers in black tie at a plush Manhattan hotel party, playing miniature golf with union bosses in Staten Island, walking the streets with black church leaders in Bedford-Stuyvesant.† (source)
- He ate hot eggs, warm bread, reveled in steaming tea, although the water from which the tea was made left an aftertaste in the mouth, afterthoughts in the brain: from what nearby barn?† (source)
- Dug in there though the tough years, reveled in the good.† (source)
- They made no attempt to alter the striking Americana of the setting—indeed, they seemed to revel in it.† (source)
- The days that followed were golden, and Spring and Summer joined and made revel together in the fields of Gondor.† (source)
- They are out reveling, when they should be preparing my new body?† (source)
- Such Corybantic revels as envisioned by the first owners never took place, however, since through some incredible oversight the raunchy entrepreneurs failed to realize that they had located their establishment in a neighborhood substantially as devoted to order and propriety as a community of Hard Shell Baptists or Mennonites.† (source)
- Randy and Mark would crouch under the rear window, behind the pulpit, fascinated and wide-eyed, while Preacher Henry described the Babylonian revels, including fornication.† (source)
- How did I hate this world of the rich, of those who revel in fine food, of the gamblers!† (source)
- I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think.† (source)
- Like Charles James Fox, he reveled in a love for life, and had a matchless gift for winning and holding the hearts of his fellow-countrymen—and women.† (source)
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I just looked as if I were studying Canadian history, you know, while all the while I was reveling in Ben Hur.
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reveling = taking delight
- But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. (source)
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Anne reveled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners.
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reveled = took delight
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She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover's Lane and the Dryad's Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.
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reveling = taking delight
- I ate everything up, not quickly, but reveling in the taste, the flavors lush on my tongue.† (source)
- As usual, they held hands most of the day, reveling in each other's company.† (source)
- I dare say we rivaled any faerie revel you can bring to mind.† (source)
- I lay in bed, my mind wandering and my body reveling in the softness.† (source)
- It was very late but Firstsite Common still had its share of revelers.† (source)
- As much as Serena detested her former in-laws, she reveled in her connection to them.† (source)
- And—for short periods, at least—they reveled in the training.† (source)
- He possessed them all and reveled in his possession.† (source)
- At the moment he's entirely unguarded and free, reveling in his own resurrection.† (source)
- His revels are tame compared to what I can do.† (source)
- How I used to revel in such bitter little snobberies myself; how eay they were, once.† (source)
- For the most part, his fellow revelers laughed off the periodic knocks and swats.† (source)
- They revel in the touch of parental hands on their faces.† (source)
- A few revelers had decayed bodies with gray flesh, matted clumps of hair, and nasty wounds.† (source)
- The master of revels bowed, but Prince Tommen was not so obedient.† (source)
- "The patrols will be focused on groups of revelers," I say.† (source)
- Take care they do not become the hands of a man who revels in the carnage of war.† (source)
- I slid my hands to familiar places and reveled in her delicious smell.† (source)
- I return to the party, swaying into the masked revelers.† (source)
- He dashed onto the track and immediately disappeared in the swirling masses of revelers.† (source)
- She would hold my hand as we wandered from room to room, both of us reveling as the past came alive.† (source)
- They were at about 40,000 feet and he was reveling in the view.† (source)
- He reveled in the knowledge that Elizabeth had forgiven him.† (source)
- She put it on, reveling in the softness of the leather.† (source)
- Incredibly, a bleary-eyed Robert E. Lee is reveling in the moment.† (source)
- His enemies had reveled in his misfortune.† (source)
- Revelers march from one place to the next, passing the flask, aimless and amazed.† (source)
- Howard's eyes scanned the faces of the revelers, searching for Smith.† (source)
- As a brace of Lannister guardsmen led him off, the master of revels approached the box.† (source)
- I shout, and the revelers stare at this girl who has lost her mind.† (source)
- I wondered if he also reveled in the warmth of being this close again.† (source)
- As Sheridan revels in the glory to come, Meade bites his tongue and accepts Grant's decision.† (source)
- drinking and reveling in the light of that which had occurred.† (source)
- And it is not ready because the staff is out reveling?† (source)
- People are going to come to this island to revel in stupidity and poverty.† (source)
- The dome of Heaven was repaired in several places at the end of the time of the revels.† (source)
- The elves had no such inhibitions, though; they welcomed Saphira into their minds, reveling in her presence.† (source)
- As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps.† (source)
- They half walked, half ran up the wide dark street thronged with late-night revelers and lined with closed shops, stars twinkling above them.† (source)
- Scared and confused, and visibly intimidated by Annie, he was soon walking down the steps, and across the lawn, dodging revelers.† (source)
- I'll fight when needed, revel when there's occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes ....but I won't let anyone use me against my will.† (source)
- I revel in it.† (source)
- But now Tally was headed into the center of the island, where floats and revelers populated the bright streets all night.† (source)
- It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people, as Ãlvaro demonstrated during one night of revels.† (source)
- Outside, night still reigned and the sounds of the elves' revels drifted from the glittering city below.† (source)
- As the revelers of the white nights had already stumbled home and the tram conductors had yet to don their caps, I strolled along Nevsky Prospekt through a stillness of spring that seemed stolen from another province, if not another time.† (source)
- As he soared at will over rugged mountains and crystal white seashores, reveling in the missed wonder of dream flight, suddenly something grabbed him by the ankle and tore him out of the sky.† (source)
- The odor of baked salmon hung stale in the air, slightly bitter and slightly acrid from the long smoldering smoke of burning alder leaves, and lay like an invisible pall over the exhausted revelers.† (source)
- It was a pair of pantyhose, stuffed with something — toilet paper, no doubt, or underwear — and thrown out of the upstairs window during some Satanic rite or adolescent prank or homeless revel.† (source)
- After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible from his traveling case; the wholesaler, whose beard would be even longer and fuller than Father's, would snatch a book or a scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other's company.† (source)
- His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices.† (source)
- Briony's late and unexpected appearance had kept them alive in the household well into Emily's forties, and how soothing, how fixing they had been; the lanolin soap and thick white bath sheet, the girlish prattle echoing in the steamy bathroom acoustic; enfolding her in the towel, trapping her arms and taking her onto her lap for a moment of babyish helplessness that Briony had reveled in not so long ago; but now baby and bathwater had vanished behind a locked door, though that was rare enough, for the girl always looked in need of a wash and a change of clothes.† (source)
- Murray and Lopez compliment Nathaniel when he's done playing, and he responds with an Aw, shucks, clearly reveling in the glory of his growing fan club.† (source)
- Mae looked across the lawn, at the hissing torches arrayed in rows, each row leading revelers to various activities—limbo, kickball, the Electric Slide—none of them related in any way to the solstice.† (source)
- The revelers were wearing masks.† (source)
- And revelers?† (source)
- They sang many songs, yet each was but part of a larger melody that wove an enchantment over the dreamy night, heightening senses, removing inhibitions, and burnishing the revels with fey magic.† (source)
- Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.† (source)
- His day, really—two days before the official close, but the day when he would get to stand before several thousand mayors from around the country and revel in his stature as mayor of Chicago, the city that built the greatest fair of all time.† (source)
- For two weeks their daughter-an adult now, self-aware and secure in some ways that grown-ups twice her age often failed to be-rested and reveled in being home.† (source)
- The revels were still going on out at the Camp Grounds, but not in any form you'd want to witness close up, as the surreptitious consumption of cheap liquor was now in full swing.† (source)
- He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.† (source)
- Seduced by the haunting notes, he jumped to his feet, ready to dash through the forest until he found the source of the voices, ready to dance among the trees and moss, anything so that he could join the elves' revels.† (source)
- Around them the Circlers captured the performance on their screens, wanting to remember the very strangeness of this band of homeless-seeming revelers, to document how incongruous it was here at the Circle, amid the carefully considered paths and gardens, amid the people who worked there, who showered regularly, tried to stay at least reasonably fashionable, and who washed their clothes.† (source)
- Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine.† (source)
- Its branches stirred, though no breeze touched them, at times the creaks of its trunk could be heard to match the flow of music, and an air of gentle benevolence emanated from the tree and lay upon those in the vicinity...And he remembered two attacks from his back, screaming and groaning in the shadows while the mad elves continued their revels around him and only Saphira came to guard over him...On the third day of the Agaeti Blodhren, or so Eragon later learned, he delivered his verses to the elves.† (source)
- There were a number of people already in the streets: merchants going to open their shops, night watchmen on their way to bed, drunk noblemen just emerging from their revels, vagrants sleeping in doorways, as well as soldiers running pell-mell toward the city walls.† (source)
- Forty feet ahead of him, Piper moved through the crowd, smiling and filling wineglasses for the ghostly revelers.† (source)
- Our conversation drifted easily from one subject to the next, and I reveled in her undivided attention.† (source)
- At a signal from the master of revels, the combatants couched their lances and put their spurs to their mounts.† (source)
- While Gabby and Travis chopped and stirred and conversed quietly about their day, he reveled in the contentment that she had brought him.† (source)
- Instead, Lincoln receives the jubilant welcome of former slaves reveling in their first moments of freedom.† (source)
- It was the most perfect day we'd spent together in years, and I reveled in the feeling until we returned home and listened to the message on the answering machine.† (source)
- She reveled in the way his gaze traveled over her, and the graceful ease of his body; she was acutely aware of their almost primal understanding of each other.† (source)
- I wondered which tight suburban road it was, if not this very one, that Anne Hickey should not have driven on late at night when everyone knows the saloon revelers would be speeding to the next place.† (source)
- Max knew the hag reveled in trying to frighten them, but he also saw that there was wisdom and hard experience in her words.† (source)
- Gradually, the revelers went silent.† (source)
- She reveled in the thrill of skin sliding against skin his to hers, hers to his—the heady friction of it.† (source)
- While the smee reveled in his wit, Max caught sight of a large figure making its way carefully down the many stairs from Rowan's cliffs.† (source)
- "Thank you," she said, hearing the raw emotion in his voice and reveling in the way it made her feel.† (source)
- She gave herself over to him then, allowing him to kiss her cheek and her neck, and she leaned back, reveling in the sensation.† (source)
- Or because they were forced to join Galbatorix's army and seek to dull their sense of shame and fear with their revels?† (source)
- He chose to allow Yousef to believe that he was now and always a successful man reveling in the sex-drenched cities of America.† (source)
- While Ben was at his music lesson, she reveled in the slow, steady motion of the swing as she sat beside him.† (source)
- One group of ecstatic revelers was more than a little stunned when Max snarled at them to move even as they clustered around to thank him.† (source)
- After pulling back slightly to make sure she was okay, he kissed her again, and she kissed him back, reveling in the strength of his arms.† (source)
- Her capacity to savor the change from grammar school was limited; she did not revel in going to different classrooms during the day and being taught by different teachers, nor in knowing that she had a hero for a brother somewhere in the remote senior school.† (source)
- Revel in your strength.† (source)
- I saw a vast hall full of revelers.† (source)
- She whisks me into the back office: she doesn't want me dangling around in the empty gallery, at loose ends while the first revelers trickle in, she doesn't want me looking unsuccessful and too eager.† (source)
- She shouted the last to the revelers.† (source)
- Nurse Duckett reveled in such attention and ducked her short chestnut bangs with joy when Yossarian and the others focused upon her.† (source)
- I reveled in the People's Forums.† (source)
- As she said it, she had a clear picture of Clara sitting on the porch while Tuck leaned against a column, reveling in the heady beauty of the wildflower garden.† (source)
- He reveled in the secure feeling it gave him, the reassuring front-page news stories that told him he truly existed, that he wasn't a twisted figment of his own imagination.† (source)
- Miss Boon tugged at his sleeve, and Max followed her down the street where Cooper had disappeared, the group swimming against a tide of revelers.† (source)
- They did not revel in their roles as assassins, preferring to fight sword against sword, but they understood the necessity of this type of raid, and they placed no value whatsoever on the lives of goblin scum.† (source)
- But tonight, the thousands of revelers called another name, chanting it with a wild, maniacal enthusiasm.† (source)
- And behind them, carrying flowers and torches, a crowd of revelers in funeral clothes danced round an old-fashioned black hearse as it drove along.† (source)
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