Example Sentences

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Lusts, loyalties and betrayals are as entwined as jungle vines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lusts, dreams, greeds, and manias sitting sad-faced and dolorous-eyed listening to a drone and a gurgle of words.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

Lusts produce evils by their enjoyments, and when evils are deemed allowable, as they are when will and understanding agree on it, the enjoyments and the evils make one.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

The three beasts who dispute his way are the sins that most easily beset us, Pride, the Lusts of the Flesh, and Greed.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

And are grown sick of your too peaceful Reign, Their Lusts grown high, they are debauch’d with Grace, And like unfrozen Snakes fly in your Face.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore