Thesaurus / lust after

lust after

How to use lust after in a sentence

However, their lust for glory brought them together again, and Marmont sailed with the Egyptian expedition.

He had lost his lust for fighting, and was soon recalled for not showing sufficient energy.

But I don't see that that sort of thing helps him to decide upon the most suitable career for a young man in after-war conditions.

And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

He wanted besides to stay for the after-service, which he had not done since he was a young man—never since his marriage.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

I beg you not to quarrel with me for the word; some of the partakers in that after-service remain from no higher motive.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

But the after-piece excited much emotion: it was called "The Discovery of Brazil."

Some of the sea-ruffians carried their cruelty to insane extremes, for the lust of blood seemed to grow upon them.

THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN

Gower relates how Diogenes reproved Alexander for his lust of conquest; Conf.

But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985