verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
indulge your passion for sth (= do something that you enjoy doing very much )
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The money enabled him to indulge his passion for horses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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But many fans have said no to perhaps the biggest potential moneyspinner a club can indulge in , relocation.
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She wanted to be indulged in all this, and who was I not to go along with her?
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My principal inheritance was a justification for any irresponsibility I cared to indulge in thereafter.
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This will be hard because of the excesses of grandiloquence the politicians have indulged in .
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Don't encourage the unthinking sprinkling of salt over food that many people indulge in .
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The new obsession with trendy design was indulged in by scattering diamond-shaped symbols around the pages.
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Howard Samuel had indulged in , as was not unusual, an enjoyable dinner.
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One is that environmental protection is too expensive to indulge in without thought of costs and benefits.
■ NOUN
activity
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Wednesday, he indulged in his favorite activity .
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Second, there are physical objects, indulging in this activity , but constrained by precise mathematical laws.
experiment
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They may be too keen to indulge in social experiments .
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In the 1920s, the United States indulged in a similar experiment when it outlawed the distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages.
fantasy
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The banks were used as limitless reservoirs to fertilise growth, indulge political fantasy and bribe the governments' friends.
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If people want to indulge in fantasies about the glories of nature, that is their business.
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Sometimes he would find himself indulging in fantasy , would picture them together in London in his new flat.
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And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants.
love
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She writes a little poetry and prose, and indulges her great love of cooking, at which she excels.
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Teaching lets me to indulge my love of history.
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He must have started as a joke, to indulge his love of singing and of local folk music.
man
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A friend recently told me her man didn't indulge in self help.
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Or, to put it another way, would men be able to indulge themselves if every woman was really faithful?
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Now you will forgive an old man for indulging in his memories.
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However, unlike in birds, it was not just the wives of low-ranking men who indulged .
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No man could go on indulging himself with something he despised and not lose something vital to his integral self.
opportunity
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Living as he does in Moycullen, he has ample local opportunities to indulge in these pastimes.
passion
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Here he was able to indulge a growing passion for literature, but not poetry, he recollects.
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Jermyn reminisces about a certain woman with whom he once indulged his passion and vanity.
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But instances like the Primitives get rarer and already one feels ashamed for indulging such backward passions .
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Turn to the Net to indulge your passion .
people
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I liked the way people admired and indulged them.
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While it might cut down on drug-related crime, the total level of harm certainly would skyrocket, as more people indulged .
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Don't encourage the unthinking sprinkling of salt over food that many people indulge in.
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If people want to indulge in fantasies about the glories of nature, that is their business.
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To talk of planning and decision making is, to these people , to indulge in self-delusion.
■ VERB
allow
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Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.
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My privileged position allows me to indulge in self-pity and despair.
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Winnie allowed herself to indulge in happy daydreams for some five minutes, and then pulled herself together sharply.
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And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Katie's a spoiled brat because her parents indulge her too much.