How do you use Lust in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like desire or starve, plus the exact meaning.
Lust in a sentence
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Lust meaning
- A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
- A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
- A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
Synonyms of Lust
Using Lust
- The main meaning on this page is: A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. | A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. | A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
- Useful related words include: lecherousness, desire, starve, thirst.
- Possible Dutch translations are: begeren, lusten, smachten.
- In the example corpus, lust often appears in combinations such as: lust for, the lust, and lust.
Context around Lust
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lust
- In this selection, "lust" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anthology, sex, thus, stories, although and formerly stand out and add context to how "lust" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are confusing lust for love and as the lust for sex. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lust" sits close to words such as alt, banda and belmont, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lust
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are governments driven by their lust for more money and power? (11 words)
Lust is, well, the embodiment of Father's lust, although she isn't so flirtatious herself. (16 words)
Kashyap has directed a story in the anthology Lust Stories which delves upon love and lust. (16 words)
Actress Mrunal Thakur, who is receiving a lot of appreciation for her performance in the streaming anthology Lust Stories 2, feels that mature conversations about s*x and lust are of prime importance in current times. (36 words)
The way to eliminate lust is to learn of its unintended effects and to pursue righteousness as concerns a worldview, intention, speech, behavior, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration, in the place where lust formerly sat. (35 words)
Concluding her story by giving into a lust for power and paranoia, she is ultimately killed off in the final season, a moment which is often cited as a low point for the franchise. (34 words)
Are governments driven by their lust for more money and power? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
The lust can take any form such as the lust for sex, lust for expensive objects (extravagance) or the lust for power.
Actress Mrunal Thakur, who is receiving a lot of appreciation for her performance in the streaming anthology Lust Stories 2, feels that mature conversations about s*x and lust are of prime importance in current times.
Lust is, well, the embodiment of Father's lust, although she isn't so flirtatious herself.
If lust has been your medicine, then lust will pound at your heart's door to be let in once again.
Kashyap has directed a story in the anthology Lust Stories which delves upon love and lust.
However, lust could also mean simply desire in general; thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful.
The way to eliminate lust is to learn of its unintended effects and to pursue righteousness as concerns a worldview, intention, speech, behavior, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration, in the place where lust formerly sat.
According to her, both are confusing lust for love because they conveniently fell in love in the final week.
Are governments driven by their lust for more money and power?
As a bringer of sudden, strong feelings and desires, this card often signals love (or lust) at first sight.
But, rather than address the whys and wherefores that broke its heart, among which were greed, indiscipline, uncontrolled lust for privileges and the love of pelf, the blame game took over.
Combine this with the lust pheromone from Ivy's climax and a billboard advertising star Brett Goldstein, and you get a building-humping Bane with destructive results.
Concluding her story by giving into a lust for power and paranoia, she is ultimately killed off in the final season, a moment which is often cited as a low point for the franchise.
Ever the pot-stirrer, Oshima designed the film as an investigation into the repression of modern society and the ways in which it manifested through lust.
Following her 2021 release around more love and lust, at first Torres questioned melding the two disparate subjects on.
For these two, it’s only about getting their rocks off, as pointed out by actor Will Ash: ‘I think it’s just pure lust, certainly at this stage.
Havoc suffers a near-death experience at the hands of Homunculi Lust, his former girlfriend, resulting in him not being able to walk again.
He doesn't have the pure power of Bane or the unstoppable lust for chaos that defines the Joker.
I felt so untouchable and so sexy, because there were rappers that all these girls lust over who would come to the strip club and request me to go to their section.
In fact the absorption of several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, was partly due to the need to put and end to inland slave trading, and not a lust for territory.
Common combinations with lust
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lust for 52×
- the lust 13×
- and lust 13×
- lust and 13×
- lust stories 12×
- of lust 11×
- lust after 7×
- to lust 7×
- lust is 5×
- their lust 5×