How to Use lurid in a Sentence

lurid

adjective

• The light from the fire cast a lurid glow on everything.
• And the biggest surprise, in this carnival of the lurid?
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• Even by the lurid standards of true crime, the saga of the Murdaugh family stands out.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Some of the lurid suits Mr. Marchitelli has made for athletes push the limits of good taste.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Peace seems far from Kingstown, a burg that is forever portrayed in a lurid light.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
• The film is a lurid panorama of half-truths and speculation.
  — NBC News, 2 Oct. 2021
• An additional treat: the label, echoing the lurid art from the EC horror comics of the 1950s.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Yet the bear adds gore and suspense and a soupçon of lurid excitement, the same way that an ax-wielding psycho does.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• But with a crime this lurid, there’s surely room enough for two different tellings.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
• The lurid nature of the crime has pierced the privacy of the town, exposing it to the outrage and laughter of strangers across the whole state and country.
  — Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
• Except Biden made the charge even more lurid by alleging that Trump had let children starve to death.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
• Return to menu For many in the United States who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, talk shows were their lurid introduction to the idea of trans people.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• Although its lurid claims were quickly challenged, the book was a best seller.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Many who may not have seen the photos still got in on the voyeuristic action by joining in the lurid commentary about them.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2022
• Atlanta’s makeover succeeded in the lurid way that urban makeovers do.
  — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• That diary, along with lurid rape and torture videos, proved a gut-wrenching record of Lake and Ng's cruelty.
  — Devan Stuart Lesley, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• With luck, something more important or at least less lurid.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• For all the lurid details that the media of the time dialed in on, there’s a human tragedy here reaching beyond those at its center.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
• The Cosmo, lurid and dated, is the most visible target for this contempt.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 July 2021
• They're also filled with lurid tales of excess and debauchery.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2021
• Sperm Flooded the Brain is a lurid indictment: a portrait of Slowak with the top of her skull open to reveal her brain covered in dripping sperm.
  — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
• This whole scheme is laid out in a voice that belongs only to Adjei-Brenyah, who bends the lurid into the lyrical — pretty words about hideous deeds.
  — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Hollywood in its darkest dreams could not come up with something as lurid as this true story of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the killer who prowled its grounds.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
• The departure of Donald Trump from the political stage has left a void of sorts in the flow of lurid and dramatic media.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• And journalists, of course, were happy to amplify all the lurid details.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• The matter came to a head in 2017 after George filed a violent and lurid court document in the midst of an effort to get the case in front of a different judge.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2021
• Even that choice was a risk, West admits; in the wrong hands, the same film could easily veer into lurid territory.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• The violence is never lurid, but Fountain doesn’t gloss over it, either.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024