voluptuously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The weather is gloriously damp, the town is voluptuously dreary.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020
Phil, as well as his enormous growth as an opera composer since “Nixon,” for revealing many unexpected shadings and complexities, and making the Richard Strauss/Wagner parody in Act II blossom voluptuously.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2017
In other pictures, loneliness looks more like idiosyncrasy: a voluptuously curved gourd on a floral tablecloth, photographed by Heather Rasmussen, could be an expression of the individual mind’s unpredictable sallies against the world’s neatly printed expectations.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 11, 2015
It would come across as another tart putdown; you can almost hear him pausing after "hey", then voluptuously sneering: "but you're all right."
From The Guardian • Nov. 28, 2012
Against her better judgment, she’d bought a new pair of vermilion high heels, the voluptuously curvy kind; not that she had her hopes up.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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