lusting

Example Sentences

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France plays host to next year's Rugby World Cup, and having twice clinched the age-grade version, Les Bleus are lusting to win the real thing.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson, the wealthiest man on Earth follows a long line of exorbitantly wealthy men lusting for space travel.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2021

He is also a serial abuser of the truth, a hack whose creative pursuits mostly flop, a failed businessman lusting after a buck and a dysfunctional family man.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2021

I will never stop lusting for a good bite.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020

How many of us are weakened still under that great antagonism of the flesh lusting against the spirit, so that we cannot do the things that we would!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander