Lurid in a sentence

Less lurid, but more ubiquitous in daily life, are the various means by which Hamas has created a patronage network that bestows benefit on its members while shutting out others.

Mixed race, unconventional, even for punk – she dressed in a mixture of frumpy second-hand clothes and lurid plastic accessories and wore braces on her teeth – Styrene represented the apex of how free and polemical punk could be, even about punk itself.

Starr’s 1998 report packed with lurid details of Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky proved far more damaging.

The accident shocked the world and led to an almost unprecedented outpouring of public grief, but has since been made the subject of a number of lurid conspiracy theories.

This includes legendary actor Christopher Lee, who took the mantle of the character in the Hammer Films productions that began with the lurid 1958 outing The Horror of Dracula.

Turkey angered Saudi Arabia by vigorously pursuing the case at the time, opening an investigation and briefing international media about the lurid details of the murder.

Two decades later, Miguel — whose film career has since lain dormant — is contacted by the producers of an lurid investigative TV show who are reopening the mystery; in need of the money, he agrees to act as a talking head.

Wohl's melodramatic and lurid style allows Jo's distress to resonate with moviegoers, especially when the entire film is through her skewed point of view.

As for the narrative, it is a beat-for-beat facsimile only nowhere near as lurid.

But what Cann is also saying is that McFall's news report isn't actually news and was more of an excuse to run a lurid headline and several photos of hot girls like Sydney, Haliey, Elizabeth, and Anna Paulina.

Gifted to me by a friend, it was incredibly lurid, nuclear green and shocking pink, and featured Iggy sprawled on the front of a stage at the height of his punk beauty.

He captured roiling clouds above the river and lurid sunsets behind the tree-carpeted slopes and sharp peaks of the Catskill Mountains that march into the distance.

He subjected a former girlfriend to a series of lurid and violent threats over the phone after their six-week relationship ended.

I adore beets of all kinds: the earthy sweet, the lurid magenta, the striped pink and the goldens.

She gave an even more lurid and horrifying description of Robert’s death, telling police that she had heard him calling out to her from the pig sty.

The late singer's production company asks the Superior Court of Los Angeles to deny Wade Robson and James Safechuck's subpoena requesting access to the 'Thriller' hitmaker's 'lurid' pictures.

While news of the princess’s diagnosis may induce a pang of guilt in those who have enjoyed gorging on the most lurid speculation, it is unlikely to result in a reduction of content about her.

Americans have largely forgotten George W. Bush’s lurid claims that Iraqi drones of death were poised to shower poisons on the sleeping nation.

And they are, indeed, quite lurid.

In a telephone interview, Mr. McWilliams said Mr. Anslinger was respected by his peers as a narcotics expert and dedicated administrator but sometimes depended more on lurid accounts than sober analysis to generate support for his initiatives.