Example Sentences

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In suggesting the price was a smidge too high, the streamer tells us it never really lusted after Warner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“Or a collector brings in a body of work that you lusted after for many years.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

But in reality, he lusted after the most upscale version of an RV; a new Prevost Marathon would sell for around a million dollars in 2001.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2023

I’d also lusted after a campy toy that they and Santa Claus had denied me: a hairdresser styling kit with a mannequin doll head.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

For clearly their thirst for gold was insatiable; they starved for it; they lusted for it; they wanted to stuff themselves with it as if they were pigs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan