How to Use lustful in a Sentence

lustful

adjective
  • He looked at her with lustful eyes.
  • Long before the yelling and the lustful soil came the rabbit.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Instead of lustful teenagers, the cast was meant to focus on preteens.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The film baptized a wider mainstream audience to his lustful soul-rock style.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 May 2017
  • The film baptized a wider mainstream audience to his lustful soul-rock style.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 May 2018
  • The track moves away from the dance floor of uncertainty and into the lustful waiting game.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
  • But both of these lustful men wear out their welcome with the ultimate jury, meaning us.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
  • In this final outing, their dangerous, sometimes even lustful cat-and-mouse chase will have to end.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • That production featured 10 vignettes with the tale of the young man and the lustful nuns as the plot of one.
    — Rick Bentley, idahostatesman, 13 July 2017
  • Ariel Skalla is facing two counts of lustful touching of a child, according to the website.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • But these actors often seem to fight against the lustful gaze of the camera, while Keanu supplants himself to it.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Rather than being lustful or playful, there’s a nervousness and a discomfort about her.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But in this one, the women are transgressive and lustful and violent and ridiculous and funny.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • Where Sweeney falls into lustful mania, Ashley wades in lustful shame.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But often, their stories are told through the eyes of others; lustful men, jealous wannabes, or athletes looking for an extra dose of pep.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But when the duo injected female urine into the water, things took a more lustful turn, and the males quickly seized the females in an amorous grip.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • There is nothing quite so sluttish, apparently, as a lustful pistil.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Both lunations bring out our lustful sentiments and urge us to DTR.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 20 June 2024
  • Was the handsome blond warrior a favorite of the aging, lustful Empress Zoe?
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Their payment, for which they were expected to be grateful, was the opportunity to wash away their lustful sins.
    — Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The lustful Akshi passes the rest of the film in the hospital, hovering between life and death.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
  • There’s nothing particularly lustful about the imagery in this film.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2024
  • Venus enters Leo, heightening our passion and lustful nature.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In a sneak peek released on Thursday, fans get a glimpse at the lustful intrigue — not to mention befuddled flirtation!
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • An observant Doc quietly warns Cameron not to cast his lustful eye on Mel because she's taken.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • For Minaj, her lustful threesome with herself had men on Twitter oozing, and salivating for more.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017
  • The film is a wild, funny, lustful, food-centric quest that fuses Western moviemaking styles with Japanese ideas.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The film is a wild, funny, lustful, food-centric quest that fuses Western moviemaking styles with Japanese ideas.
    — Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The two admit to having always loved each other (that's not a spoiler; the book is nearly 200 years old) and begin a steamy, lustful affair.
    — Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This two-kilometer-long island close to Rome was once a prison, with lustful Roman women and anti-fascists among its detainees over the years.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022

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