How to Use luxuriant in a Sentence

luxuriant

adjective
  • Here’s a quick sampling of the luxuriant new kids on the block.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Over the course of a week, long slow dawns bled into long luxuriant dusks.
    Kate Siber, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The video finds the 19-year-old and a trope of lady friends bopping around a luxuriant mansion.
    Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The new owners plan to keep it as a hotel and also plan to reopen the Big 4, and the luxuriant Nob Hill Spa.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
  • They were all built on a grand scale and with a luxuriant sense of space, looking like the sort of places the gods might vacation.
    Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This is a book as luxuriant as a warm bath, and if the water sometimes grows cold, that, too, may be part of the pleasure.
    Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Or opt for the renowned oxtail stew, luxuriant mac and cheese, and well seasoned greens.
    New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Is dinner a quick pick-up from the deli down the block or a luxuriant dockside feast on a breezy late August evening?
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The painting is gorgeous — the mattress is, in places, pearlescent; luxuriant strokes of teal edge the bed.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Picture a lion: The male has a luxuriant mane, the female doesn’t.
    Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Picture a lion: The male has a luxuriant mane, the female doesn’t.
    Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
  • The starry pause is luxuriant, and short-lived; a levee has given way, and the water begins to rise.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • The earliest show him as a baby and a toddler, with luxuriant long red hair.
    Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • There would be no more luxuriant bars to get office drones over the mid-afternoon hump on a busy Wednesday work day.
    OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • His avatar has a luxuriant Tom Selleck ’stache, but no arms or legs.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • His chestnut mop turned a luxuriant white long ago, but a few nips and tucks make his actual age — 68 — hard to discern.
    Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013
  • The luxuriant valley of the Shire River is marshy and abounding in lagoons, in which grow great quantities of the lotus plant.
    Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
  • From the air, the jungles of Panama unfurled in a luxuriant green tapestry.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Add bath oil to revive your skin, close your eyes and imagine stress dissolving, and then dry off with a luxuriant fluffy towel.
    Jessica Migala, Health.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But here in the rainy first week of February, in the luxuriant silence of his subdivision, LaVar is already a legend in his own mind.
    Zach Baron, GQ, 21 June 2017
  • Adelaide jumped on request, and allowed a visitor to feed her with one hand, leaving the other free to stroke her dense, luxuriant fur.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • The new plantings, drawn from a much more limited palette, will not be nearly as luxuriant.
    Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • In warm months, the grasslands burst into luxuriant green, and Tibetan and Mongolian herders have for centuries guided yaks and goats over the pastures.
    Chris Buckley and Adam Wu, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The guava syrup accompaniment offers a lighter touch than your standard maple syrup, but every bite feels luxuriant, like the chip crumbs from the bottom of the bag.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • What was once the New Jersey State Fairgrounds has expanded and evolved over the years into a mazelike, luxuriant landscape.
    Julie Besonen, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Her top register here, and elsewhere, was a pleasure to encounter, her high notes unforced and luxuriant.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Soft-roasted kuri squash, luxuriant in brown butter and fried sage, arrives boosted with a dollop of burrata and a nest of lemony chicories.
    Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Luxuriant quills sprouted along its tail like bristles from a toothbrush.
    National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2016
  • Its 4½ acres are covered with mature trees, gardens and a luxuriant landscape.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The pictures beneath the wire sculptures are more akin to French impressionism than to shanshui, and overall, Lin-Lin’s work gives a more luxuriant impression than Bertrand’s.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 May 2023

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