lust after
Example Sentences
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Cartier’s store is one big fantasy world, filled with objects most people can’t afford but lust after.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2024
The ability to call someones life "Trauma Porn" or lust after someone's pain to enhance you art career is a luxury that many of us never had.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2021
He is not presenting his model simply as a body to lust after but as a man absorbed in contemplation of the African art with what Mr. Edmonds describes as a “look of discernment.”
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020
And yet, the camera I lust after now is exactly this X1D, even while it’s heavier, sometimes clumsier, and consistently slower than most other cameras.
From The Verge • Feb. 12, 2018
More than any other English writer of any age, except Byron, he symbolizes the youth of his time; its hot-bloodedness, its lust after knowledge and power and life inspires all his pages.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
