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lush

[luhsh] / lʌʃ /


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Gloriously lush, vast and yet somehow deeply quaint, it was jarringly unexpected in the best of ways.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

One success story however comes from the Holnicote Estate in Somerset, where the introduction of beavers to create wetlands has helped the area remain green and lush despite this summer's drought.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The property includes 300 feet of frontage and lush landscaping.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Totoki, 62, grew up in Yamaguchi, a prefecture on the westernmost tip of Japan’s main island famous for lush forests and noodles fried on hot tiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

She held up a postcard with a picture of colorful parrots perched in lush green trees.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

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

There he stood now, his right hand out, palm upward, his lips curled in the ghastly imitation of a smile, blue gums and yellow lushes showing, a sight to freeze the blood with horror.

From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Some of the lusher scraps—velvets, taffetas, silks, lace—I turned into sumptuous ballgowns for my sister’s proto-Barbie doll.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 2, 2025

This much lusher treatment follows the trend of celebrities and public figures taking their messages straight to the public, using the language of social media rather than conventional news or an interview.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2024

Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2023

Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 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

Golda Schultz’s soprano isn’t the lushest or largest, but as the Countess she delivered a poised, silky “Porgi amor.”

From New York Times Jan. 10, 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

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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