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Sentence Examples The majority of Eritreans are farmers and so have little spare time for luxuries such as sports. In its conception, America was a furious dream, and when you are not a child of its luxuries from birth, you see that in all its wideness. It's easy to forget that luxuries such as fitted carpets and central heating are comparatively recent. Essential civil and political liberties have been denied so systematically that they may as well be luxuries. None of the money was invested, instead it was spent on luxuries like fast cars. Rather than rare luxuries for royalty or nobility, well-made gloves were soon to be made available for everyone. Tens of thousands of pensioners are prisoners in their homes, with none of the luxuries Huntley and Bieber receive. It is a far cry from the touring luxuries of the bands they have supported. Victoria felt even more guilty as she eyed up the luxuries dotted around the room. Branch networks are moribund expensive luxuries, yet customers like branches. A washing machine and a refrigerator were luxuries which made the life of the housewife much easier. Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas. Some of their own professors in the past might have seen such virtues as expensive luxuries. As the gifts and luxuries stack up, is everything as it appears or do dangerous times lie in wait for her? Local taxes and surcharges on luxuries like theatre tickets were also reintroduced as a means of subsidizing hospitals. Unattainable luxuries were transformed into desirable marks of status or even into affordable necessities. It was a sitting room, with huge windows and thick carpet and couches and the usual luxuries. At the end of a busy day, they go home to such luxuries as double jacuzzi baths. In the Sahara, cars, electric showers, water and even toilets are absolute luxuries! My greatest luxuries were miniature pots of Marmite and packet soups from the canteen. Show More Sentences She put televisions and kettles in every cell, not as luxuries but because she considered them to be basics of life. It wasn't that long ago that cigarette lighters or radios were automotive luxuries. Having simple luxuries on hand for hungry loved ones is a saving grace when friends drop by or for when holiday houseguests search for snacks. Others, who knew better, had brought along steaks and scampi, served with chilled champagne and other assorted luxuries. Sweating on an assembly line, she strips thorns from flowers bound for countries where people can afford such luxuries. Often members of the middle and upper-middle class, these customers are willing to spend their dollars on the luxuries they love. We have more interest in saving for short-term luxuries than in investing for our future. Staying alive is a daily struggle with only one meal per day, with school fees and uniforms being considered unaffordable luxuries. A clothesline in the backyard is a reminder of how electric dryers were once considered luxuries, not household must-haves. The movements condemned goods of foreign provenance, in part by defining them as unnecessary, unpatriotic, and unvirtuous luxuries. Their dinner had two courses rather than one, and included luxuries such as veal, capons, pigeon, plovers and tarts. Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily. Desserts, sweets, cakes, biscuits, and pastries are considered to be luxuries. Most men consider a decent razor one of life's little luxuries, and unlike cheapskate me will pay over the odds for a better shave. People who were occupied in business, homemaking, labor, and professions had little time for such luxuries. Gee's Bend was a very poor community that could ill afford luxuries like store-bought blankets and bed coverings. In other words, it offers almost all the comforts and luxuries foreign travelers are accustomed to. Once stark, empty stores are filled with the things that few can buy, but the mere presence of such luxuries is a comfort. Admittedly, our sense of intrepidness is somewhat hampered by some of the ship's luxuries. With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year. Show More Sentences You can slip one of these little luxuries into your garment bag or car or on the back of a chair in your work space for an instant escape. Much of that new spending will be on personal luxuries, with a growth in gourmet delicatessens, luxury coffee bars and designer boutiques. Despite the many luxuries and enabling technologies available to them, young people are becoming less happy and secure. They all had expensive appointments and untold luxuries for the knights, lords, dukes and princes who served the king. Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day. By bringing packed lunches to work, cutting back on unnecessary luxuries, I attempted to slash my everyday expenses to zero. As ascetic as Aries is, you delight in luxuries now, indulging any urge to splurge. Two small and one large spice loaves from his sisters, a pork pie and a mince pie, two pounds of cheese-it was a veritable treasure chest of luxuries. One of the few luxuries her room had was the sunken bath tub. The people are so nice, the city so pleasant and full of history, but what I see so far is that it has English quaintness yet all the luxuries we are used to in America. There were few luxuries and certainly no thought of private academies. It's one of life's simple luxuries, like fresh snapper and garden peas. They will be given basic daily food rations, but few luxuries. Besides, there is so much to do that such luxuries as spending hours and hours stalking cats in pursuit of the perfect shot are simply not possible. In the evenings, she would look over their bank statements and bills, calculating and recalculating numbers until she found a way to cut out enough luxuries. And the red-carpet luxuries will keep on rolling out for the whole year. For many Lao, such items as meat, ducks, and chicken are luxuries. Less than two in 10 wanted to buy luxuries for themselves or their families, and less than one in ten stay-at-home Scots would spend the money on a holiday. Florence, meanwhile, is in the throes of a religious revival led by the Dominican friar who thunders against vice, female luxuries, and male effeminacy. Glacial ice in your whiskey, guaranteed guanaco, condor and rhea sightings, and even a vegetarian option come mealtimes are just some of the luxuries. Show More Sentences For people who like luxuries but may be strapped, having dedicated funds to support an expensive coffee habit can be very useful. Taxes on luxuries have some advantage over taxes on necessaries. The Victorian-Romanesque hotel, Mansion on forsyth Park, equipped with modern luxuries, offers the best of both worlds. Pocket money, dole or reduced pension does not stretch to these luxuries, since privatisation for profit precludes travel to and cost of entrance to these simple pleasures. He spent nothing on himself or on luxuries, and cared little about his appearance, always wearing a dated, crumpled, violet suit, frilled cuffs and a three cornered hat. Essentially everyone was in business for themselves, supplying the necessities and luxuries of the colonies while supplying the established mother country with raw materials. Some special editions featured such luxuries as mats and a CD player. This is consumer advertising that recognises that consumers are having a difficult time of it and market their products as little luxuries or indulgences. General water usage, like showering daily or washing up after each meal, could become rare luxuries, let alone watering the garden or washing the car. Yet, aside from the Porsche and a developing taste for cocaine, he indulged in few luxuries. For Lee, the main task is to rediscover traditional handicrafts and Taiwanese cultural symbols and mold them into modern luxuries for international markets. She'd thought that as an apprentice she'd be able to escape from some of the more uncomfortable luxuries of her wealthy background, but even at the Temple proprieties ruled. We shall use these badly needed funds for the dentist, and for such luxuries as killing the carpenter ant infestation, and for paying off the tax guy. A large, expensive fridge in a wealthy home will be excused smoked salmon and costly cheeses, but if no small luxuries are evident is it a case of miserliness? It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of Scotch can afford us. On Pretty Ugly People, we made up for the luxuries of a big-budget production with creating a summer-camp atmosphere. Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. Surpluses could be stored for later use, or possibly traded for other necessities or luxuries. The UAE was the fourth best for disposable incomes, fifth best for salaries and increasing savings and eighth for luxuries. Italian farms supplied vegetables and fruits, but fish and meat were luxuries. Show More Sentences Franchise owners can now offer primping services such as professional blow-outs, makeup and other salon luxuries nationwide. Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world. The average house, or in cities apartment, of a commoner or plebe did not contain many luxuries. In exchange, the principality imported salt, wine, wheat, and other luxuries from London and Paris. For the young and unattached, there was, for the first time in decades, spare cash for leisure, clothes, and luxuries. During the economic depression, luxuries like pearls were in little demand. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them. He passed a sumptuary law that restricted the purchase of certain luxuries. He did not overindulge in the luxuries of palace life, but still used Buddhism and Buddhist festivals to help calm civil unrest. With control of these trade routes, citizens of the Roman Empire would receive new luxuries and greater prosperity for the Empire as a whole. Other luxuries include a heated king-sized waterbed and rubber flooring which is gentle on the animals' joints. Their living quarters for their occupation in Japan were Quonset huts which were void of any luxuries. These are just playtime politics, luxuries for the leisure class. For the uninitiated, glamping is for the campers who still want their luxuries. The world and his wife are the customers for whom the textile industry supplies the greatest necessity next to food, and some of the greatest luxuries. Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries. Sardines and tinned salmon were luxuries we could not afford, but fresh fish and game were better, and, even when salted, were preferrable to a continuous diet of beef. There were taxes also on luxuries, alcohol, and tobacco, so that money could be made available for the new welfare programmes as well as new battleships. In some countries, such as the UK, excise has generally been limited to goods which are luxuries or a risk to health or morals, but this is not the case everywhere. Show More Sentences Bed tea or chota hazari, as we used to know it when I was a child in Calcutta during the last days of the raj, is one of the luxuries of my life in India. Below, on the first floor is a large luxury bathroom and double bedroom, luxuries including the developer's trademark features such as demisting mirrors. The females are prone to be affected by the advertisements and peacockery as well as to be enslaved by the consumption desire of luxuries against the male. Ground-pounders won't have the same home-style luxuries, but by always envisioning an encounter as you still-hunt or stalk, you'll begin to look ahead for setup locations. Examples from Classical Literature As washing the hair with gogo is one of the luxuries of the Philippines, I shall describe how it is done. Perhaps he had bought all his luxuries on jaw-bone from one store while he paid cash for his muck-a-muck in another. Still the comforts, and even the luxuries of life distinguished our habitation. They copy the luxuries, the inborn vices of the blue blood of Europe's crowned Sardanapalian autocrats. Luxuries are unprocurable, but no sensible man will go to a new country expecting luxuries. At present his little luxuries were knocked off, and in the future he foresaw a difficulty in the procuration of even necessaries. There is also a eugenic advantage in heavy taxes on harmful commodities and unapprovable luxuries. They can affect the manners and enjoy the luxuries of people of distinction. The blockade had raised even the most simple articles to the price of luxuries. God and Solitude are luxuries which only a few among us nowadays can afford. For never, while supping on this single dish, would he dream of the mensal and kitchen luxuries of the Hermitage in Bronx Park. In his thoughts she had been but the personification of the pleasures and luxuries that many francs would purchase. He indulged me in all possible ways as to creature comforts and luxuries. Steps have already been taken to restrict the imports of luxuries. The seamen in return purvey the needful luxuries for lumber-camps. Her income was only sufficient for the family support, and she needed the lodging money for trifling luxuries. I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. He had supplied doctors and nurses and luxuries, but he had shrunk from the mere thought of the boy and had buried himself in his own misery. Van Brandt is to undertake secures to us the comforts, if not the luxuries, of life. Coquenard, after the luxuries of such a repast, which he called an excess, felt the want of a siesta. Show More Sentences We do not expect luxuries, but to do good work we must keep fit. What our ancestors considered as luxuries we now regard as necessities. Alick was of opinion that church, like other luxuries, was not to be indulged in often by a foreman who had the weather and the ewes on his mind. The residents of Pompeii had fine plumbing, baths and luxuries. I fairly revelled in all the luxuries we had as Mr. Robeson's guests. The child had many more luxuries and indulgences than had been awarded his father. To Constable Wiseman it meant luxuries of a varied and costly nature. The worst is, they are most of them not necessaries but luxuries. He stood over me, man of all the luxuries that he was, in his nightshirt. Its luxuries and ostentations were, in themselves, perhaps bad for us. It is true they occasionally hunt the elk and deer, and ensnare the water-fowl of their ponds and rivers, but these are casual luxuries. At night the bunched electrics lit up that distressful palace of all the luxuries, and they fared sumptuously, swinging on through the emptiness of abject desolation. His children were indulged in luxuries that his death was to dissipate, and enjoyed an opulence that was only co-existent with the life of their parent. They left the dining-room and, eschewing the inviting luxuries of the billiard room and library, passed into a small room behind, plainly furnished as a business man's study. Nevertheless, she was much impressed by the luxuries all about her, enjoyed them, wished she owned them, and wondered why the Shaws were not a happier family. Moreover, a small but sufficient competency was mine, allowing me reasonable comforts, and the luxuries of a small but choice library, and a small but choice garden. Find more words! 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