How to Use luxuriant in a Sentence

luxuriant

adjective
  • But now all that luxuriant coat is starting to come off.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Over the course of a week, long slow dawns bled into long luxuriant dusks.
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s a quick sampling of the luxuriant new kids on the block.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The outdoor shower was lined by a wall of luxuriant birds of paradise plants.
    — Sandra Guzmán, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • They were all built on a grand scale and with a luxuriant sense of space, looking like the sort of places the gods might vacation.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The earliest show him as a baby and a toddler, with luxuriant long red hair.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • This is a book as luxuriant as a warm bath, and if the water sometimes grows cold, that, too, may be part of the pleasure.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Leaves could be strongly toothed or prickly or scalloped or luxuriant.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Luxuriant quills sprouted along its tail like bristles from a toothbrush.
    — National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2016
  • His avatar has a luxuriant Tom Selleck ’stache, but no arms or legs.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Is dinner a quick pick-up from the deli down the block or a luxuriant dockside feast on a breezy late August evening?
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The video finds the 19-year-old and a trope of lady friends bopping around a luxuriant mansion.
    — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The painting is gorgeous — the mattress is, in places, pearlescent; luxuriant strokes of teal edge the bed.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The starry pause is luxuriant, and short-lived; a levee has given way, and the water begins to rise.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • My room had a four-poster bed, a cast-iron stove and a luxuriant bathroom with a set of two freestanding baths and a large farmhouse sink.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The new plantings, drawn from a much more limited palette, will not be nearly as luxuriant.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Add bath oil to revive your skin, close your eyes and imagine stress dissolving, and then dry off with a luxuriant fluffy towel.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • There would be no more luxuriant bars to get office drones over the mid-afternoon hump on a busy Wednesday work day.
    — OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • His chestnut mop turned a luxuriant white long ago, but a few nips and tucks make his actual age — 68 — hard to discern.
    — Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013
  • Its 4½ acres are covered with mature trees, gardens and a luxuriant landscape.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The luxuriant texture combined with the umami depth-charge can stun a table into silence.
    — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Soon her company was installing thousands of plants in offices across the city, in luxuriant displays.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Her top register here, and elsewhere, was a pleasure to encounter, her high notes unforced and luxuriant.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Adelaide jumped on request, and allowed a visitor to feed her with one hand, leaving the other free to stroke her dense, luxuriant fur.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • From the air, the jungles of Panama unfurled in a luxuriant green tapestry.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Margaret, with a smile on her face and her luxuriant skirt cascading to the floor, radiates maternal love and decorum.
    — Janette Greenwood, The Conversation, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Beyond it is a three-hectare haven of silvery olive trees, luxuriant Washingtonia palms, and lawns where peacocks wander freely.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The guava syrup accompaniment offers a lighter touch than your standard maple syrup, but every bite feels luxuriant, like the chip crumbs from the bottom of the bag.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • An informal cut, perhaps, though the top’s material — a luxuriant silk crepe — helped elevate the look.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The luxuriant valley of the Shire River is marshy and abounding in lagoons, in which grow great quantities of the lotus plant.
    — Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020

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