lust

Example Sentences

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The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

“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

“Tupac was writing Mary these poems about love, lust, longing and sadness,” Pearlman says.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

And then there’s Becca’s twin sister, Terry, also played by Kruger, a shaggy-haired dog groomer with an insatiable lust for conspiracy.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Another told how pitilessly Galahad had dealt with a fiend in a tomb, how he had cooled the well of lust, and how the castle of the leprous lady had finally been tumbled down.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White