lust

Example Sentences

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The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Macclesfield described McLeod as having a "lust for life" and an "unwavering work ethic", which was an inspiration to those around him.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

“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

He no doubt hoped that this lust would be satiated when the FBI arrested a substitute older white lady, Judge Hannah Dugan of Wisconsin, on iffy-sounding charges of "obstruction."

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

With one bound the lust to live flares up again and everything that has filled my thoughts goes down before it.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque