How to Use lustful in a Sentence

lustful

adjective

• He looked at her with lustful eyes.
• That production featured 10 vignettes with the tale of the young man and the lustful nuns as the plot of one.
  — Rick Bentley, idahostatesman, 13 July 2017
• Then the scene turns from weepy fearfulness to lustful.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
• Instead of lustful teenagers, the cast was meant to focus on preteens.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
• The track moves away from the dance floor of uncertainty and into the lustful waiting game.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
• But these actors often seem to fight against the lustful gaze of the camera, while Keanu supplants himself to it.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
• The room is also stocked with its own bar and a personal theater for laid back but lustful evenings.
  — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 18 Aug. 2017
• The lustful Akshi passes the rest of the film in the hospital, hovering between life and death.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
• Ariel Skalla is facing two counts of lustful touching of a child, according to the website.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• The film baptized a wider mainstream audience to his lustful soul-rock style.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 May 2017
• The film baptized a wider mainstream audience to his lustful soul-rock style.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 May 2018
• Was the handsome blond warrior a favorite of the aging, lustful Empress Zoe?
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• But when the duo injected female urine into the water, things took a more lustful turn, and the males quickly seized the females in an amorous grip.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
• Both are the object of pious, if not exactly lustful, love.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Sep. 2017
• But both of these lustful men wear out their welcome with the ultimate jury, meaning us.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
• In this final outing, their dangerous, sometimes even lustful cat-and-mouse chase will have to end.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
• In the show’s fourth season, Ander and Patrick find themselves in a lustful throuple turned love triangle with Ander’s boyfriend Omar.
  — USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• His own mother was a member of an all-female rap group called Leather and Lace, which might explain the ease with which 27-year-old Kash makes songs about lustful subject matter.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
• But often, their stories are told through the eyes of others; lustful men, jealous wannabes, or athletes looking for an extra dose of pep.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
• In a sneak peek released on Thursday, fans get a glimpse at the lustful intrigue — not to mention befuddled flirtation!
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• This two-kilometer-long island close to Rome was once a prison, with lustful Roman women and anti-fascists among its detainees over the years.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
• Where Sweeney falls into lustful mania, Ashley wades in lustful shame.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
• The film is a wild, funny, lustful, food-centric quest that fuses Western moviemaking styles with Japanese ideas.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• An observant Doc quietly warns Cameron not to cast his lustful eye on Mel because she's taken.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• Their payment, for which they were expected to be grateful, was the opportunity to wash away their lustful sins.
  — Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
• Designed and made in France, the home of romanticism, 401 is the ultimate romantic scent for those lustful summer days.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• But if the novel tried to be everything at once, the film focuses on the book’s most marketable element: Kya’s lustful dalliances with locals in her teenage years.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• It can be seen in countless instances, from King Kong imagery being used to attempt to demonstrate the lustful nature of black men, to throwing bananas in front of black sports players.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 May 2018
• The track starts with a prayer, then transitions into the chronology of Kendrick and Sherane’s lustful relationship.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 21 Oct. 2022
• Khilji is portrayed as half-mad, lustful, and a committed carnivore, stereotypes of the Indian Muslim brought to life.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024