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lust - use in sentences
Converse of object
- fulfill: Walk in the Spirit, or fulfill the lusts of the flesh?
- fulfill: So long as we walk in the Spirit we do not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- satisfy: A psychosis which becomes so powerful that killing random women cannot satisfy the blood lust he has for his wife.
Preposition: at
- sight: Love can grow for many reasons, from lust at first sight to friendship that develops over a long period of time.
Adjective modifier
- fleshly: Did Christ pander to all their fleshly lusts to see with their eyes rather than to have faith?
- carnal: It of course symbolizes the emptiness of Volpone's love which is nothing more than carnal lust in fancy dress.
- unbridled: Even he had to admit that they smelled " bloody awful " in such moments of unbridled lust.
- insatiable: Yet in the end, his noble qualities were subsumed by his insatiable lust for glory.
- worldly: Grace teaches men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts ( Tit.
- shameful: Such godless people ' God has given over, ' the Apostle says, ' to shameful lusts.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- over: Ferraris are not meant to be practical, they are to give you immense pleasure, and to lust over.
Noun used with modifier
- blood: Having sated their blood lust, the next thing people do is try to explore.
- diver: We have ' divers lusts, ' Titus iii.
Preposition: of
- flesh: Walk in the Spirit, or fulfill the lusts of the flesh?
- eye: The last days of Belshazzar were days of the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes.
Preposition: for
- power: The European Union's lust for power knows no bounds.
- gold: But he learns harsh lessons, above all that his lust for gold means very little compared with his love for family and friends.
- blood: Beyond them, barring his way, the self proclaimed Gods of Death, sadistic warriors with a lust for blood.
- profit: Others see the roots in lust for profit against a background of lawlessness in a gun culture.
- life: Here, he has defeated the Doctor by merging with him with his lust for life overcoming the Doctor's spirit.
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