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
Socially-distanced viewers with time to kill gathered around the social media water cooler to lust after the resplendent clothes and spin increasingly implausible theories.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 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
Yet it does not therefore follow that in Christ there was the fomes of sin, for this implies the lust after pleasurable things against the order of reason.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
