lust after
Example Sentences
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Cartier’s store is one big fantasy world, filled with objects most people can’t afford but lust after.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2024
The ability to call someones life "Trauma Porn" or lust after someone's pain to enhance you art career is a luxury that many of us never had.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2021
And yet, the camera I lust after now is exactly this X1D, even while it’s heavier, sometimes clumsier, and consistently slower than most other cameras.
From The Verge • Feb. 12, 2018
We can imagine deifying different bodies or a wider variety of them; we might even imagine a post-gaze society, where we lust after personality and spirit rather than external appearance.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018
Oh! there is in the intellectual workman's heart, as in all others, the root of Pharisaism—the lust after self-glorifying superiority, on the ground of "genius."
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
