How to Use lust in a Sentence

lust

1 of 2 noun

• He was consumed by lust.
• He was driven by a lust for power.
• Lust for chocolate drew her into the candy store.
• But the mood in the room takes a turn and my lust fades.
  — Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• Down at the toe of Italy’s boot, lust hangs in the air.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Yet even the prospect of the end of the world isn't enough to re-ignite Kratos' lust for war.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• But then there’s the lust you’re not supposed to share out loud.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 July 2023
• The fourth story is Valhalla: leather goods, and the air is ripe with the pheromones of bag lust.
  — Mike Albo, Town & Country, 1 Dec. 2022
• The human body is dazzling, the source of all the V-day themes, from lust and love to passion.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• Also, his lust for life, all of that desire to eat it all up.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 25 July 2022
• The point is to show off the design of the foldable phone to create a sense of mystique, power, and lust.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Sometimes the most direct way to defy death is to celebrate the life — and lusts — of the body.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The two seasons are lust versus love, and for me, the latter will always win.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• If the erotic thrillers of the past explored the dangers of lust, Park Chan-wook explores the risks of longing.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The cast throws a pool party and love (or lust) is most definitely in the air.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• Ariana’s been singing a lot about love so far—but this song seems to be more about lust.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• Melanie and Dan have been together for six years, but a new job (and new lust) threatens to tear them apart.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
• In recent weeks, fans of the peregrine falcons have watched death, lust and birth play out from the comfort of their homes.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
• How a simple brushing of hands can make someone burn with lust.
  — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Leonard Lev scarcely hides his lust for the handsome young nurse Mr. Rodriguez.
  — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
• Smith proselytizes about love and lust, reading from the Book of Psalms.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
• The affair is pure lust, and Unfaithful isn't even a proper thriller until the 70-minute mark.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 May 2022
• Can Big Pharma cure your sloth, lust, wrath, envy, pride?
  — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
• The Todd Field film centers around themes of art, lust, obsession and power.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
• One result was a lust to discover the source of that mythic body of water.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• This season, the scandalous antecedent events of lust, love, and denial have caused a kingdom in chaos!
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Ring of the Nibelung portrays gods and mortals, giants and dwarves, torn between love and lust for power.
  — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2023
• The thrum of Francine’s swirling resentment, worry, and lust pierces the quiet that Jérôme’s murder was supposed to bring.
  — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
• With features from Lucky Daye, Smino and Kehlani, the album documents the phases of lust, love and grief.
  — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2022
• If the past few seasons were about lust and desire, this one will no doubt be about the cheesiest, most lovey-dovey devotion.
  — Madison Rexroat, ELLE, 30 Sep. 2022

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lust

2 of 2 verb

• The Great Gatsby Ladies aren't the only ones with closets to lust after.
  — Diana Pearl, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2014
• In Big Church the message was simple: Men were prone to lust, women to gossip.
  — Kelsey McKinney, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Holt has only three home runs at a point in the game’s history where teams lust for power.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The gang's leader lusts after her and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
  — Houston Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2019
• To be fair, everybody in the family seems to lust for Patrizia.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• Luckily for me, there were lots of fashion fits to lust after.
  — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 17 June 2019
• From the moment Cordish's glittering One Light high-rise apartments opened at the end of 2015, the heart of the city lusted for luxury.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018
• The reasonable thing to do would be to just follow the group, but the animal part of me that lusts for adrenaline and speed takes over.
  — Nadine Sander-Green, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2021
• Or Andrey Rublev, a 25-year-old Russian with a forehand that so many pros lust after.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Combining them grew from a desire to give readers the most complete advice on what to buy and what to lust over.
  — Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, China has long lusted after a firm strategic foothold in the Middle East and Gulf regions.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• Alas, Tess is lusting for bad boy bartender Jake (Tom Sturridge).
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• As a lesbian myself, there is much to lust after in Gentleman Jack.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 22 Apr. 2019
• Now cool-hunter kids lust after Jordan sneakers and Jean Prouvé No. 305 chairs.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• From Ronnie's sequin dress to Josie's sparkly two-piece, there were a whole lot of wardrobe choices worth lusting after at the big event.
  — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
• The following day, Cyrus still lusted over her man and showed him off in her Instagram Story.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2019
• Apple just unveiled a Mac many of you have been lusting after for years: a bigger MacBook Air.
  — Brian Westover, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
• Astute fans of Back to the Future will recognize it as the truck that Marty lusted after; that's a Hilux in everything but the name.
  — Devin Holody, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• Paris Couture Week always offers an array of swoon-worthy gowns to lust over.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2019
• The flavor soul of most food ingredients is split into halves that rarely mix: one that thrives in water and one that lusts after fat.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Luckily, Bridgerton was just renewed for a season 3 and 4, so there will be many more hot people to lust after.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 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
• Displaced Puerto Ricans have become the face of a voting bloc politicians are lusting over.
  — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
• Thirst Aid Kit became a safe space for lusting out loud… respectfully.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 July 2023
• Alaskans are lusting after fresh fruits and vegetables right now, fantasizing about the pepper and snap of an arugula stem and the sweet acid of a mango.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• New York remains hamstrung by sky-high taxes and a red-tape-lusting bureaucrats.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• So yes, Shakespeare could have loved (or lusted after) men or women other than his wife, Anne Hathaway—but the sonnets don’t prove that.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• So yes, Shakespeare could have loved (or lusted after) men or women other than his wife, Anne Hathaway—but the sonnets don’t prove that.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• With awkward choices around the specs, design, and pricing, Apple has better options for consumers lusting for a Pro laptop.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024