LUXURY in a Sentence

Learn LUXURY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
177 example sentences for LUXURY, such as:
1. The luxury model gives a smoother ride.
2. She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
3. It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
4. But the luxury of others was not what she wanted.
5. A luxury tax on large cars was introduced last year.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LUXURY
luxury
 n.  the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
 n.  wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
Classic Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  With the exception of the dark-eyed woman's chair, which looked like a soiled relic of luxury bought at a country auction, the furniture was of the roughest kind.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The lazy luxury of the old days was gone, never to return.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being taken care of.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  Only to Melanie, the next morning, did she permit herself the luxury of exploding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6  Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  But the luxury of others was not what she wanted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  The force of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more in a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a breakfast-table set invitingly near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
10  As often happens, the pupil had outstripped the teacher, and Mrs. Hatch was already aware of heights of elegance as well as depths of luxury beyond the world of the Emporium.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  The luxury of lying late in bed was a pleasure belonging to the life of ease; it had no part in the utilitarian existence of the boarding-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
12  These were the only traces of luxury, of that clinging to the minute observance of personal seemliness, which showed what her other renunciations must have cost.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
13  The chintz-lined, silver-fitted bag which had seemed so desirable a luxury in St. Paul was an extravagant vanity here.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  For these she might have found a luxury of forgiveness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  In former times, before Robert could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  For the first time in three years, they actually had the luxury of a whole day together.
2  Warmness is luxury — which is reflected by deep cold and hurt.
3  There's slim hope that in the maze of dark and disordered tuins a luxury haunting love will be discovered.
4  Caviar and oysters on ice are generally considered the ultimate luxury foods.
5  It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
6  This is considered a luxury item and is priced accordingly.
7  The luxury model gives a smoother ride.
8  In my opinion you won't go, you're habituated to luxury.
9  Prices reflect the fact that the company is aiming at the luxury market.
10  We are not extravagant; restaurant meals are a luxury and designer clothes are out.
11  It was a luxury hotel with its own swimming pool and restaurant.
12  He left his successful business and life of luxury to become a monk.
13  A luxury tax on large cars was introduced last year.
14  At least 29 vehicles were destroyed in arson attacks this year, most of them luxury cars, according to police.
15  A wealthy heiress is murdered aboard a luxury cruise liner, and everyone's a suspect.