lustfully

Example Sentences

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GLG’s investors, which include Silver Lake, a big private-equity firm, want an exit soon, and are probably looking lustfully at the fortune LinkedIn’s initial public offering recently generated.

From Economist • Jun. 16, 2011

Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells."

From Time Magazine Archive

He got to his feet, and stood before Newman with legs spraddled and arms akimbo; drinking in lustfully the picture of the other man's utter misery.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman

When the Teuton first crossed the Alpine barrier and poured himself lustfully out over the fertile plains of northern Italy, it was literally a place in the sun which he coveted.

From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert

Here was a greedy man, torn in twain betwixt greed and conscience; and I sat by and relished, and lustfully renewed his torments.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis