How to Use lust in a Sentence

lust

1 of 2 noun
  • He was consumed by lust.
  • He was driven by a lust for power.
  • Lust for chocolate drew her into the candy store.
  • But then there’s the lust you’re not supposed to share out loud.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 July 2023
  • These people are like Gods of lust.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Also, his lust for life, all of that desire to eat it all up.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 25 July 2022
  • And for the second year in a row, Texas claims the top spot for lust.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Some people might say lust, with all the hunger imagery, but love sounds good, too.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • Ariana’s been singing a lot about love so far—but this song seems to be more about lust.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • How a simple brushing of hands can make someone burn with lust.
    — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The object of his love and lust is a ruminant.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Love, or maybe lust, is on the brain as Mars enters Aries.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • These roles required an adult grasp of lust and jealousy and nihilism.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Yet even the prospect of the end of the world isn't enough to re-ignite Kratos' lust for war.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Love, er, lust is in the air at Ludlow College.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The cast throws a pool party and love (or lust) is most definitely in the air.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The two seasons are lust versus love, and for me, the latter will always win.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Politicians are still destroying the peace just for their own power lust.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 June 2026
  • One result was a lust to discover the source of that mythic body of water.
    — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • Each chime is supposed to root out a worldly passion, such as anger, suspicion or lust.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Sometimes the most direct way to defy death is to celebrate the life — and lusts — of the body.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In recent weeks, fans of the peregrine falcons have watched death, lust and birth play out from the comfort of their homes.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
  • In that way, the show captures the inescapable American lust for weight-loss.
    — Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Melanie and Dan have been together for six years, but a new job (and new lust) threatens to tear them apart.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • The songs are all about freedom, single motherhood, love and lust — often in the same breath.
    — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The point is to show off the design of the foldable phone to create a sense of mystique, power, and lust.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • There's so much joy and this entrepreneurial spirit and kind of lust.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Yet Trump’s lust for Greenland goes beyond that, people close to him have told me.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The show gives the 11-year-old book a modern polish but keeps the slow-burn journey of lust and love.
    — Jennifer McClellan, USA Today, 17 May 2026
  • This season, the scandalous antecedent events of lust, love, and denial have caused a kingdom in chaos!
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023

lust

2 of 2 verb
  • Lace-y Things Nothing says love and lust quite like lace, right?
    — Eva Thomas, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Yet lust, in its most rudimental form, overtook him and led him astray.
    — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Luckily for me, there were lots of fashion fits to lust after.
    — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 17 June 2019
  • Holt has only three home runs at a point in the game’s history where teams lust for power.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The gang's leader lusts after her and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
    — Houston Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Combining them grew from a desire to give readers the most complete advice on what to buy and what to lust over.
    — Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
  • To be fair, everybody in the family seems to lust for Patrizia.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • But their convenience and easy setup has made campers everywhere lust after them.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
  • His looking at and lusting after women online hurts my feelings.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • As a lesbian myself, there is much to lust after in Gentleman Jack.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 22 Apr. 2019
  • Paris Couture Week always offers an array of swoon-worthy gowns to lust over.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2019
  • The Great Gatsby Ladies aren't the only ones with closets to lust after.
    — Diana Pearl, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2014
  • The reasonable thing to do would be to just follow the group, but the animal part of me that lusts for adrenaline and speed takes over.
    — Nadine Sander-Green, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2021
  • New York remains hamstrung by sky-high taxes and a red-tape-lusting bureaucrats.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • All other human passions are subsidiary to lust for money and contempt for those no longer in a position to dole it out.
    — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Thirst Aid Kit became a safe space for lusting out loud… respectfully.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 31 July 2023
  • Alas, Tess is lusting for bad boy bartender Jake (Tom Sturridge).
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Once his helplessness gave way to rage, Portis lusted for a confrontation.
    — Brian Burnsed, SI.com, 28 June 2017
  • Rhoades, lusting to put Axelrod away, gives his associate a hard time.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
  • Some are perhaps yet to witness theirs, while some are probably lusting over the memories of theirs playing from many years ago.
    — SI.com, 4 June 2018
  • His palette is light, smudgy guitar textures and warm synths; his message, more gestural than discursive, is love and lust.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Gaunt supermodels curved around rocks, stretching out their sharp and bony bodies, lusting after the ground itself.
    — Charlotte Fox Weber, Time, 23 June 2023
  • Hillary Clinton had the power to kill, and occasionally lusted in it.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Her mission was to capture the scent of a diamond, that deeply lusted-after — and utterly fragrance-free — rock.
    — Cotton Codinha, Allure, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Or Andrey Rublev, a 25-year-old Russian with a forehand that so many pros lust after.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Displaced Puerto Ricans have become the face of a voting bloc politicians are lusting over.
    — Bianca Padró Ocasio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
  • The following day, Cyrus still lusted over her man and showed him off in her Instagram Story.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2019
  • From Ronnie's sequin dress to Josie's sparkly two-piece, there were a whole lot of wardrobe choices worth lusting after at the big event.
    — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Luckily, Bridgerton was just renewed for a season 3 and 4, so there will be many more hot people to lust after.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Alaskans are lusting after fresh fruits and vegetables right now, fantasizing about the pepper and snap of an arugula stem and the sweet acid of a mango.
    — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018

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