lust
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Ian Dench, Derry's bandmate, said: "I can't think of anyone who embodied lust for life like Derry did. I mean, he was beautiful inside out."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Celtic have not been a good team this season, but they've shown a lust for battle, an ability to keep playing and winning even when their performances have never risen above the mundane.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Releasing sterilized males involves no pesticides, and also leverages the insect’s biology: Males in lust are adept at finding females.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
“Good idea,” Bryant said, “except that Mr. Kadalyi is already here; his Aeroflot ship—as usual, he says—arrived early. lust a moment.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
She loathes the former and lusts after the latter, and her heightened emotions and cabaret dreams swell to a magnificent, hysterical crescendo unlike Broadway has ever seen.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
Seniesa learns from a loss and lusts for revenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Domingo spent decades enacting the full spectrum of what is now called toxic masculinity, men blind to their own lusts and rages.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020
From end to end, it’s an album of love songs: love progressing through childhood crushes, adult lusts, parental nurturing and benedictions for unknown descendants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
"My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?"
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
It’s why, for years, I lusted over the Omega Speedmaster Professional — famously the first watch to go to the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
In suggesting the price was a smidge too high, the streamer tells us it never really lusted after Warner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“Or a collector brings in a body of work that you lusted after for many years.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
But in reality, he lusted after the most upscale version of an RV; a new Prevost Marathon would sell for around a million dollars in 2001.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2023
The DiAngelos had four cars, including a silver Porsche, that J.T. lusted after.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
It’s that for various reasons, a lot of Americans are lusting after proof that America is good.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Currently, I've got the "spice" colored pan, but I find myself lusting after the new "acid" green pan to herald in spring.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
On the field, the players will be as fervent as they ever were, lusting for success, trying on stardom but still young and rehearsing for adulthood.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
Every class also functions as an infomercial for the Peloton line of equipment; I’ve found myself lusting after a Peloton bike just to inch closer to the imagined subject to whom the instructors speak.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
Then Joe graduated from high school, and, lusting for life, took a clerk's job with one of the big express companies.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
