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How to use lusty in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Lusty means exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality. Example: “Looking for some hot, hard and hunky fun or a lusty lost weekend at the beach?”

Examples of lusty by meaning

adjectiveGiven to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations; lustful.

  • Looking for some hot, hard and hunky fun or a lusty lost weekend at the beach?1990 April 7, “Keep It Coming!”, in Gay Community News, page 17

More sentences with lusty

  • In Greek mythology a satyr is a lusty fertile woodland deity, but satyrisation is the opposite.2019 January 27, Tanya Loos, “Unravelling the Secrets of Satyrisation”, in Cosmos: The Science of Everything, Adelaide, S.A.: Royal…. From the entry satyrization
  • "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" is lusty, a blockbuster conception.1961, “Ives”, in Twentieth Century Music In The Western Hemisphere, J. B. Lippincott, page 146. From the entry blockbuster
  • The sun burst through the sullen clouds, and flung his lusty beams about the house.1912, Louis Pergaud, “Margot”, in Douglas English, transl., Tales of the Untamed: Dramas of the Animal World, New York: Outing Publishing…. From the entry lilly-low
  • You are such a lusty lewdster, Giles.2006, Cat Sparks, Agog! Ripping Reads. From the entry lewdster
  • Her polar opposite, Abigail is the plump, lusty twin.2003 September 25, Janet Maslin, “Books of the Times: A Family's Fatuousness”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2015. From the entry polar opposite
  • The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter I, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part…. From the entry decorous
  • Townspeople who saw 'strawing' and 'following the wran' as invasions by 'lusty young men of the country' saw Volunteer events in the same way.1998, Peter Hart, The I.R.A. and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry straw
  • The return bus trip is sometimes a rather depressing experience when a few soldiers imbibed too freely and overboisterously vent their spirits in lusty voices and loosely controlled movements.2005, David Rothbart, A Soldier's Journal: With the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II, →ISBN. From the entry overboisterously
  • Misknit bones had made his crooked legs a trifle crookeder, but he could run again and attest the vigor of his lungs by a lusty bark.1900, Bernarr MacFadden, Fasting - hydrotherapy - exercise, page 43. From the entry misknit

Meaning of lusty

  1. adjective Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality.
  2. adjective Hearty, merry, gleesome, enthusiastic, lively, stirring.
  3. adjective Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations; lustful.

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Questions about lusty in a sentence

How do you use lusty in a sentence?
Lusty is used as an adjective. For example: “Looking for some hot, hard and hunky fun or a lusty lost weekend at the beach?”
What is a short sentence with lusty?
“You are such a lusty lewdster, Giles.”
What does lusty mean?
Lusty means exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality.

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