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
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
But that’s the dirty secret at the crux of new technologies and the advertising engine that makes us lust after them: Our ideals seldom line up with our interests.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2016
In every line of this amazing testimony you may detect a contempt of human life and justice, an indifference to suffering, an eager lust after unearned dollars, which are without parallel.
From American Sketches 1908 by Whibley, Charles
