VOLUPTUOUS in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for VOLUPTUOUS, such as:

1. The night was tropical and voluptuous.
2. The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.
3. The heart draws back before voluptuousness only to love the more.
4. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness.
5. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more than heaven, it has voluptuousness.

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 Meanings and Examples of VOLUPTUOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
voluptuous
 a.  giving pleasure or satisfaction of the senses; having strong sexual appeal
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  I knew the swaying round forms, the bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous lips.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  The night was tropical and voluptuous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The court, in the inside, had evidently been arranged to gratify a picturesque and voluptuous ideality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is tickled in his self-love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
9  At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile presented a singular contrast.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
10  Oh, how voluptuous and lovely it was to have limbs and body half-asleep, heavy and suffused with passion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  Well, in all these recognitions and disgraces it is that there lies a voluptuous pleasure.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
12  The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
14  Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more than heaven, it has voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
15  The heart draws back before voluptuousness only to love the more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.
2  In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.'