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

“I never wanted to her to think I lusted for the job,” Bonner said in a text message.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

“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

As I went along I found that more and more people lusted toward Florida and that thousands had moved there and more thousands wanted to and would.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck