lusty
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Fans who had previously been happy cheering wins with lusty renditions of “Sweet Caroline” don’t mind that it has been shoved aside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Through the back of the green in two lusty blows, it was now down to touch, feel and nerve.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
Fresh from four months in federal prison, Navarro arrived on stage to a long and lusty ovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Famously sampled in Madonna’s 2005 dance-floor reinvention “Hung Up,” this lusty 1979 Abba classic also boasts some excellent parentheses use.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Last in his class at West Point, he makes up for a lack of wisdom with a lusty exuberance.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Its cuisine is arguably less sophisticated than Provence’s, and yet it is more firmly rooted in the land it sprang from, and it is, I put to you, enjoyed with lustier abandon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
Heartthrob invokes somber, marble notebook dumps as truthfully as it portrays its lustier foil.
From Time ● Feb. 1, 2013
Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans sang lustier and more voices came in until they killed the parody even as they had killed “Auld Lang Syne.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
A year after the loudest and lustiest of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments was played amid eerie silence and empty seats, the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
The collection was the achievement of a lifetime of picture-buying by one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, the late, great corporation lawyer John G. Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of this quest has arisen the lustiest, fastest-growing phenomenon in U.S. finance: the investment trust, notably the "open-end" or "Boston-type" trust.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The raucous screams stopped then, suddenly, and on their very lustiest crest, leaving an echoing gash across silence.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst
Vocabulary lists containing lusty
"Of Plymouth Plantation," Vocabulary from the historical account
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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