lush
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My first reaction to the trailer for “Children of Blood and Bone,” Paramount’s lush adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling 2018 young adult novel, was that I buzzed with excitement.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
And golfers at Woldingham Golf Club found their normally lush course had turned to patches of green.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
For decades, so much water has been taken that the river seldom meets the sea in Mexico, and its delta, once filled with lush wetlands and forests, has shriveled to stretches of dry riverbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Developers also advertised a lush, landscaped central courtyard that was a part of the original factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The bottom, thick, rough trunk, like an elephant’s leg pulled to the right of the driveway, the top, green and lush, rolled to the left.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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I suspect Nick will finally come out of the closet, and those East Egg lushes will reappear in the 1420s, the 1720s and space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
There's a late-night grilled cheese place just a few blocks down the street from my apartment up here in Canada, one frequented by the local students and lushes on weekend evenings.
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2016
If we ever launch a space capsule documenting the drinking traditions of Earth for the benefit of extraterrestrial lushes, we should choose this one to represent the bloody mary.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2014
Titans is a retread, clogged with louche lushes in tuxes and gowns, its old-money family saga as tired as the Williams bloodline.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A man on the road who "lushes" and fingers chips does not last long.
From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)
Darlings of New York’s late-1970s music scene, David Byrne and his bandmates started as a defiantly simple act and gradually took on a lusher sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Hoylake was parched when Woods won in 2006, famously using his driver just once over the four days, while McIlroy triumphed on a lusher course after third-round rainstorms.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2023
That has left parts of the state looking lusher than they normally do in June, he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
But the crotons were lusher than ever and the variegated bougainvilleas she hadn’t thought would take were heavy with pink blossoms.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Robin Pecknold’s exquisite lockdown tunes pining for nature on 2020’s “Shore” should sound right at home in one of the Seattle area’s lushest venues — if you can afford it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
But her solo material has tended towards Americana, and On the Line is her lushest, most melodic record to date.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2019
We had a picnic on a highway median in California one time—it seemed like a park to us—and it was the lushest grass I had ever seen.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2017
It had been harder watching a raft of former conference brothers — Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Boston College, West Virginia, Rutgers, Louisville — gain acceptance to the lushest greenery.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2016
He could hop onto it and trek right on back to the RV, which, relative to his present surroundings, is the world’s lushest palace full of what Dad would call “first-world luxuries.”
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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