1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, inRailway Magazine, page53:
Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had beenindulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, inRAIL, number948, pages40–41:
How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle andindulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?
"She constantly faked being sick, and perhaps mistakenly, Iindulged her more than I should have, pretending I couldn't tell. But I AM a teacher myself, so it's kind of hard to just let this slide."
It’s the kind of scenario Peter Sellers might have dreamt up while brushing his teeth, and some of the comic set-pieces – including Nobby’s seduction of a fabulously overweight maid (Gabourey Sidibe) at a luxurious South African hotel – allow Baron Cohen toindulge his Sellersian fantasies to a previously unprecedented degree.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Internet shopping invites you to gaze out upon the entire bazaar all at once and toindulge the merest whim
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persuading us that something must beindulged to public manners