"luxury" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Before the development of modern refrigeration, ice cream was a luxury reserved for special occasions.
- Geishas were a luxury reserved for financial big shots and the military elite.
- Mama remembered the days when long-distance phone calls had been a major luxury, reserved for birth or funeral announcements, maybe a quick ring on holidays.
- Being angry is a luxury reserved for the public, which counts on the president to exercise more measured judgment.
- The objective was to reduce staff and reduce expenses, so space planning and design were seen as luxuries best reserved for better days.
- Even in the deepest recesses of the universe, there was no silence; peace was a luxury reserved for the grave.
- Regret was a luxury reserved for the living, who still had the time, the breath and the energy to act.
- In today's wobbly economy, most husbands simply can't afford divorce; serial monogamy has become a luxury reserved for billionaires.
- Instead he lit a cigarette, a forbidden luxury reserved for when Kerry was out of the house, and inhaled greedily.
- Air conditioning was a luxury reserved for the summer, and even then only if the electricity-rationing board permitted it.
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