lust

Example Sentences

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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

“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“She had this lust for life — happy, vivacious and a don’t-take-crap-from-nobody attitude,” Hernández recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024

But the hosts of Mordor were enheartened, and filled with a new lust and fury they came yelling to the onset.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien