lust

Example Sentences

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The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Macclesfield described McLeod as having a "lust for life" and an "unwavering work ethic", which was an inspiration to those around him.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

The latter, afflicted by “the incurable disease of mediocrity,” has led a disappointing life yet still possesses a lust for it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison