lust
noun
intense sexual desire or appetite.
was lusting
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past progressiveof lust.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Nick Carraway had given way to Sherman McCoy, and the Halifax was lusting after its share of the action.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2015
He also had an Android phone, but at that point was lusting after a Flip camera and a MacBook as well.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010
He said this was not true, and so we journeyed off to Palisades Hobby to see the Yellow Wheels he was lusting for.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Paphnutius had not been grateful to Him for that, because at that time he was blind to his own interests, and did not know that he was lusting after false delights.
From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas
Each man was lusting for all that was not his own; but free alms, where were they? and pity for the sad, and reverence for the stricken, and tenderness and sympathy?
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
