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
She couldn’t remember the last time she had lain down to read during the day—it was like being a teen-ager, time stretching out voluptuously in all directions.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
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
He also began his voluptuously messy Red Paintings, chaotic collages assailed with a glorious repertoire of drips, splashes and smears.
From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2016
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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