lusty
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Fans who had previously been happy cheering wins with lusty renditions of “Sweet Caroline” don’t mind that it has been shoved aside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
A few lusty blows from Shepherd, Matthew Forde and debutant Terrance Hinds got West Indies beyond 150 but, with Buttler in such fine form, England made light work of knocking off the runs.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
Biden was greeted with a lusty ovation lasting more than 4½ minutes, by far the longest of the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
By the end of the two-hour hike that evening, three lusty male tarantulas had been spotted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
At three in the morning on Billy’s morphine night in prison, a new patient was carried into the hospital by two lusty Englishmen.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Its cuisine is arguably less sophisticated than Provence’s, and yet it is more firmly rooted in the land it sprang from, and it is, I put to you, enjoyed with lustier abandon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
Heartthrob invokes somber, marble notebook dumps as truthfully as it portrays its lustier foil.
From Time ● Feb. 1, 2013
Antwerp, Belgium "Women are tougher, stronger and lustier than anyone ever thought."
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the heart of the Nation, out of Indiana has arisen a new and lustier figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans sang lustier and more voices came in until they killed the parody even as they had killed “Auld Lang Syne.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
A year after the loudest and lustiest of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments was played amid eerie silence and empty seats, the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Delegates to the first convention of the American Veterans Committee, lustiest & loudest of the scores of burgeoning World War II-born veterans' groups, were too busy for horseplay.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Blony process and Gum, Inc., are both creations of one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, burly, brown-eyed Jacob Warren Bowman, whose business adventures have been many and remarkable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, after five years, Priscilla was born, the lustiest and most demanding of all the children.
From The Place Beyond the Winds by Harry Spafford Potter
Vocabulary lists containing lusty
"Of Plymouth Plantation," Vocabulary from the historical account
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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