"luxury" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

luxury sustantivo

verbo + luxury
Kolokacji: 7
afford the luxury • enjoy the luxury • live in luxury • offer luxury • buy luxuries • ...
(1) afford, offer, buy
Kolokacji: 3
(2) enjoy, live
Kolokacji: 2
(3) allow, reserve
Kolokacji: 2
1. allow the luxury = pozwól luksusowi allow the luxury
2. luxury reserved = luksus zachował luxury reserved
  • 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.
adjetivo + luxury
Kolokacji: 35
great luxury • little luxury • rare luxury • small luxury • expensive luxury • ...
preposición + luxury
Kolokacji: 8
of luxury • for luxury • in luxury • with luxury • to luxury • ...

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