Sample Sentences for
lurid
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    The walls were all covered with large, lurid pink flowers.  (source)
    lurid = surprisingly brightly colored
  • •
    She found me reading a book one day called, The Lurid Mystery of the Haunted Hall.  (source)
    Lurid = shocking and disturbing
  • •
    Bill Y.'s eyes, for their part, had been punched black, purple, and lurid.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
  • •
    Artists demonized John Wilkes Booth with lurid pictures of him as the devil's disciple.†  (source)
  • •
    It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.†  (source)
  • •
    Contrary to almost everything he'd read about their luridness, he found them long and boring.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • •
    I did not want to miss a single lurid detail.†  (source)
  • •
    I saw the figures dancing luridly, the lights flashing, the band going.†  (source)
  • •
    No other country in the world had been subjected to as much "idiotic commentary," he said, and it would have been hard to argue the point, given the fact that, for instance, the name of Haiti's indigenous religion had long since become the synonym for crazy ideas and sheer luridness.†  (source)
  • •
    Puzzled brown eyes looked into lurid, red-veined, green ones.†  (source)
  • •
    Besides her many cuts and bruises, though — some of them luridly three-dimensional — Helen had a concussion.†  (source)
  • •
    Imagination might have beheld a Last Day luridness in this red-coaled glow, which fell on his face and hand, and on hers, peering into the loose hair about her brow, and firing the delicate skin underneath.†  (source)
  • •
    The title was lurid red: KING OF SPARTA.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)