lushness

Example Sentences

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The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

A lushness, a preference for olive greens and blacker-than-black shadows.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

According to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strengthening monsoon—and the lushness it lent—helped attract the region’s first Homo sapiens.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 7, 2024

Set to Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 — which Alexei Ratmansky used for his “Concerto DSCH,” a hit for New York City Ballet — “Concerto” had moments of playfulness and lushness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson