Use luxuries in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Editorial »

How to use the word luxuries in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

19 results found

The general sense of those in the industry is that people have come off of a stressful period of uncertainty, and they find comfort in certain beverages and snacks. Even as inflation leads to higher prices they refuse to give up these small luxuries. – Duane Stanford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We theorized that people were looking to treat themselves with little luxuries during these difficult times, scents allow us to escape, even momentarily, and experience a different emotion. – Larissa Jensen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
if you listen to all those people who have become the face of farmers protest and often give media bites, they have kept the main agenda on the back seat and travelling with luxuries and stressing everywhere on the importance of voting only. It seems through backdoor meeting they were given an assignment by Govt to convince people for voting only. – Raneshwar Sing Kishan	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I think when things get hard for people, they look to have small, very meaningful luxuries, i think there's an appetite for experiences at home now that we're stuck there. – Matthew Berk	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It wasn't like this before, but now even gloves and cleats are luxuries. – Cacique Mara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Toronto's government has grown bloated and wasteful, it's time to stop the gravy train that provides luxuries and perks to politicians and rich contracts to their friends. – Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We've actually had more customers since the kwanza crashed. They can't get dollars so they buy luxuries. – Louis Mendes	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This could be anything from being sure that the specialty dietary gourmet pet food is the right flavor or brand to making sure that the pet's seat is properly set up for flight, inflight puppy massage, inflight grooming, and real grass turf poop and pee boxes are some of the other luxuries that pampered pets may experience. – Henry Thompson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. – C. S. Lewis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species. – Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. – Robert Orben	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. – A. Edward Newton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The general sense of those in the industry is that people have come off of a stressful period of uncertainty, and they find comfort in certain beverages and snacks. Even as inflation leads to higher prices they refuse to give up these small luxuries.

– Duane Stanford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We theorized that people were looking to treat themselves with little luxuries during these difficult times, scents allow us to escape, even momentarily, and experience a different emotion.

– Larissa Jensen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

if you listen to all those people who have become the face of farmers protest and often give media bites, they have kept the main agenda on the back seat and travelling with luxuries and stressing everywhere on the importance of voting only. It seems through backdoor meeting they were given an assignment by Govt to convince people for voting only.

– Raneshwar Sing Kishan

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I think when things get hard for people, they look to have small, very meaningful luxuries, i think there's an appetite for experiences at home now that we're stuck there.

– Matthew Berk

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It wasn't like this before, but now even gloves and cleats are luxuries.

– Cacique Mara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Toronto's government has grown bloated and wasteful, it's time to stop the gravy train that provides luxuries and perks to politicians and rich contracts to their friends.

– Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We've actually had more customers since the kwanza crashed. They can't get dollars so they buy luxuries.

– Louis Mendes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This could be anything from being sure that the specialty dietary gourmet pet food is the right flavor or brand to making sure that the pet's seat is properly set up for flight, inflight puppy massage, inflight grooming, and real grass turf poop and pee boxes are some of the other luxuries that pampered pets may experience.

– Henry Thompson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

– William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

– C. S. Lewis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

– Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

– Frank Lloyd Wright