Examples of lust in a Sentence

Noun He was consumed by lust. He was driven by a lust for power. Lust for chocolate drew her into the candy store.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Along with Spanish colonizers looking for riches, priests looking for souls to save, many Indigenous people came as well — some as servants, others forcibly to quench the lust of men, some as wives, and many more for endless other reasons. — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022 This lust for living happily each and every day has served the people here well and rewarded them with a few extra healthy years. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2022 The lyrics repeatedly touch on loss of time and regret, but foot-stomp picking, joyous harmonies, and an optimistic lust for life lead the band home. — Drew Fortune, SPIN, 25 Jan. 2022 Though the cinematic exploits of Indiana Jones in the 1980s provided a popular, fictional view of a Nazi lust for antiquities, the art world has, understandably, focused considerably more attention on the seizure of art from Jews. — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022 The California native singer-songwriter is known for her vintage Americana style and lust for romance, which both play key roles in her new releases. — Vogue, 7 Dec. 2021 Ace of Wands: A true lust for life is cast upon you in October, my Scorpio friends. — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021 But the process comes with its own surprises, and what begins as curiosity morphs into fascination, attraction, lust. — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022 Jupiter’s forward traction into Aries on May 10, enhances our desires and lust for life. — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Panerai fans are bound to lust after the watch for its three years-in-the-making skeletonized automatic movement, the brand’s first-ever. — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2021 To be fair, everybody in the family seems to lust for Patrizia. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021 The league bosses, who lust for new stadiums, would have objected, leaned on the Yorks to build a new one ASAP. — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2021 Fantasies of love or lust open her up to violent visions of volcanoes, unrest and a hail of bullets, but all these disasters are outstripped by her longing. — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021 Now cool-hunter kids lust after Jordan sneakers and Jean Prouvé No. 305 chairs. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021 All other human passions are subsidiary to lust for money and contempt for those no longer in a position to dole it out. — Geoffrey O’brien, The New York Review of Books, 29 Jan. 2020 But their convenience and easy setup has made campers everywhere lust after them. — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2021 In Big Church the message was simple: Men were prone to lust, women to gossip. — Kelsey Mckinney, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021 See More

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