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lush

[luhsh] / lʌʃ /


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When they found an older, character-filled home in a lush nearby town, they snapped it up.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The home is surrounded in lush greenery and features several floor-to-ceiling windows that allow natural light to flood inside.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Still, the couple is spending around $100,000 to replace nearly all of their lush Japanese garden’s foundation plants with rocks, turf and pavers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Folks will be able to traverse past giant ancient redwoods to mighty rivers ... through lush vineyards, golden rolling hills.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

As luck would have it, though, the only English-language film being shown in Belgrade was Lust for Life, the lush biopic of the mad nineteenth-century Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

A man on the road who "lushes" and fingers chips does not last long.

From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson

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

To the east of the Great Plains lie the wetter and lusher Eastern Woodlands, extending from the Mississippi River basin to the Atlantic coast.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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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