Example Sentences

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France plays host to next year's Rugby World Cup, and having twice clinched the age-grade version, Les Bleus are lusting to win the real thing.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

In 1997, Disney put trays of food in the women’s hands so that it looked like the pirates are lusting after the food instead of the fleeing women in their flowing gowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2017

But I do not assume that those who disagree are lusting for another war.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2015

By the standards of 1976, when a clutch of candidates are lusting for the presidency, that anomie seems as remote as the Age of Jefferson.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these foes, if they be men, are lusting after our fair Dale to eat it up, and it is most like that they are gathering a huge host to fall upon us at home. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William