How to Use lewd in a Sentence
lewd
adjective- He made lewd remarks to the woman at the bar.
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What were some of the insults made in those lewd letters?
— Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Peck was arrested in August 2003 on a charge of lewd acts with a child.
— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024 -
David also received one count of a lewd act on a child under 14.
— Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024 -
And the lewd tweets were all part of a marketing ploy for the RadioShack Crypto platform.
— Allison Morrow, CNN, 30 June 2022 -
One widespread story at the time was that Gagosian liked to make lewd telephone calls to women.
— Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 -
Goularte is facing a felony count of a lewd and lascivious act with a child under the age of 14.
— USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022 -
Two years ago, a former deputy was convicted of rape, lewd acts on a child and other charges.
— Jeff McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Two years ago, a former deputy was convicted of forcible rape, lewd acts on a child and other charges.
— Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023 -
The man is being charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023 -
Peck pleaded no contest to charges of committing a lewd act against a child and was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
— Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024 -
At one point, Farkas laughed at something on his phone, and, a moment later, texted me a mildly lewd meme.
— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 -
Their complaints range from forcible kissing to lewd comments.
— Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2021 -
The firing came hours after the Mets discovered that Porter had sent lewd texts to a female reporter four and a half years ago.
— New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021 -
Mank rejected the idea, but there is a evidence that those lewd rumours could be true.
— Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 7 Dec. 2020 -
The refiled charges accuse García and Ocampo of committing a lewd act on a 15-year-old girl.
— Robert Jablon, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020 -
The complaints about her wardrobe and the lewd snark in her media coverage continued.
— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021 -
There was snickering about Heard going on the stand, as well as one person starting a lewd chant about the actress.
— Washington Post, 4 May 2022 -
Pamela Des Barres’s breathlessly lewd memoir of her years as a groupie should come with a cover-up when taken to the beach.
— The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021 -
Guards heckled her, made lewd jokes, asked about her genitalia.
— J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024 -
This unseen creep serves as a third character, his presence felt through a stream of lewd text messages.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023 -
He was sentenced to 135-years-to-life in prison on multiple charges of lewd acts on a child, prosecutors said.
— Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 27 May 2024 -
Joseph was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim between the ages of 12 and 16.
— Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021 -
Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment.
— CBS News, 30 June 2022 -
The abuse ranged from lewd behavior in front of victims to violent assaults,'' the report states.
— Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2019 -
But perhaps Vermeer’s young woman isn’t at all like the lewd figure behind her.
— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023 -
The movie's trailer dropped back in August, showing the aftermath of a lewd video circulating the high school.
— Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Galeana, 21, pleaded not guilty to a total of 12 charges, including felony charges of forcible lewd acts on a child and furnishing cannabis to a minor.
— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The interview also sees McInnes engage in the kind of lewd behavior and racist remarks he’s become infamous for.
— Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher went on one of his bad-boy tirades during a performance at the 1996 show by swearing, wandering the stage and making lewd gestures during his brother Noel's guitar solo.
— Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
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