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Meanings of lust in English
Usage of lust in English
1
In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
2
Stories of lust abound in the Hebrew Scriptures; Genesis alone has five.
3
Had she allowed herself to feel anything but lust these past years?
4
He saw the blood-lust flame in the eyes which searched his face.
5
This building was home to constant, regular acts of lust and desire.
6
She reminded me of a thousand cheerleaders I used to lust after.
7
There was novelty in it, and it satisfied the lust for killing.
8
But the dominant passion of the Spaniard was the lust of gold.
9
Released in 1993 it said everything about unrequited love, lust and longing.
10
Hope had been lost and replaced by a kind of hot lust.
11
Strong emotions will do that to the lesser vamps: fear, lust, anger.
12
The scholastics take the lust of the flesh to mean carnal lust.
13
The lust of blood was beating in every stroke of my heart.
14
The lust has, thank God, very definitely cooled since leaving the restaurant.
15
In the wild lust of hand-to-hand combat my old dauntless hopefulness returned.
16
The lust of battle in all its mad fury was upon me.
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Lust through the time
Lust across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common