Example Sentences

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The hair remains longest on top, and a fade, undercut, or harsh disconnect enhances the style’s potential for voluptuousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Whip the cream until thick and airy but still with a soft voluptuousness about it, and set it aside for a mo.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2017

The great abstractions of existence — capitalism, say, or evolution, or the expanding universe — are no more consequential in our lives than, as Gide insisted, “the voluptuousness of objects.”

From Time • Mar. 2, 2014

Like the other excellent moments of the film, it bristled with the unpredictable energy and decadent voluptuousness of a Fellini movie.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2011

There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles