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Example sentences for "lusted"

Lexicographically close words:
luse; lush; lusit; lust; luste; luster; lusterless; lusters; lustes; lusteth
  1. I went up into the pavilion and smelt the odour of the viands and my soul lusted after them; but I forbore awhile, till at last I could no longer restrain my appetite.

  2. Quoth Sherkan (and indeed he lusted after her and said to himself, "She does not know that I am a champion of the champions.

  3. Fiercely though they lusted for my life, brimming with hate though they made their cries, no man dared to rush in and raise a hand against me.

  4. Now a certain thief saw her and lusted after her.

  5. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

  6. Yellow-bellied newts--big enough to be lusted for--swam in its waters.

  7. Twice within the next half-hour he had to move swiftly to avoid foragers who would not directly attack him because he was alive--unless he seemed to threaten danger--but who lusted after the fabric of his garments.

  8. When the people lusted for flesh, Moses said, 'Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them?

  9. Also, things began to grow scarce in Mansoul; now the things that her soul lusted after were departing from her.

  10. First their eye saw them, and then their heart lusted after them.

  11. I went up into the pavilion and smelt the odour of the viands and my spirit lusted after them; but I possessed my soul in patience for a while, till at last I could no longer withstand temptation.

  12. When I heard of this arrangement I lusted strongly.

  13. I had seen one or two other women I lusted for, but above all wanted to go to France with Fred who had returned from India; so her being in the family way bothered me.

  14. His soul lusted for touch with a steamer again with a fierceness which he did not own even to himself.

  15. There was pungent smoke reek here also, and, though its slenderness came to him as a blessed relief after what he had been enduring, he lusted desperately for a taste of the pure air outside.

  16. Moreover it hath been said that Time will bring the hour when the wealth of Yahn shall be such as his dreams have lusted for.

  17. Still the three Yozis lusted for the worship of men, and came, on the third night of their sailing, to a city's lights; and nearing the shore they found it a city of song wherein all folks rejoiced.

  18. The Fakir would by no means part with it, whereupon I lusted the more to possess it, and resolved in my mind that, should the holy man give it up of his free will, then well and good, but if not I would force it from him.

  19. The devil has given him everything he lusted for.

  20. The devil stands beside them and whispers mockingly: 'I have given you everything your heart lusted for; does it taste sweet?

  21. It was not money now, he lusted for, but power.

  22. Such, in its essence, was the great experiment station of these two men who lusted for dominion over the whole world.

  23. Nay, supposing I find a damsel fifteen years of age and beautiful exceedingly, according to Thy Grace's requirement, how shall I know that she hath never in her time lusted after man nor hath man lusted after her?

  24. The hosts were many in numbers, mighty, and skilled in the strife, And they lusted for gold and conquest as the old king lusted for life.

  25. No doubt Samson lusted for it as sinfully and lustily and craftily as any one.

  26. Yet even Patali did not know the real reason why Gungadhura lusted for possession of that small house on the hill.

  27. But it is possible that "lusts of ungodlinesses" means that they lusted after impieties, and therefore the rendering given in the margin of the Revised Version should not be left unheeded.

  28. He had not long been married to Miss Youghal, but he scented in the telegram a chance of return to the old detective work that his soul lusted after, and next night he came in and heard our story.

  29. The Norse god Loki lusted after Freya, and was lamed therefor.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lusted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.