How to use lurid in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lurid? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes. Her reading consisted of a staple diet of lurid romances and whodunits, and her thoughts tended towards the macabre. The lure of the lurid would lead pop-rock away from the Liverpudlians and into the grip of the Londoners. The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places. Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind. The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie. The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell. These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value. Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax! It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort. Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers. Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational. Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience. We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out. By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play. Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide. The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is. Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism. And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life. I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice. Show More Sentences We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause. Many of these accounts were embellished, and some of the more lurid tales were pure fabrications. When they emerge in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colors that you want to kick them, not pick them. If, like me, you have found that movie just too lurid and sadistic for your taste, Sweet Charlotte will probably be more to your liking. A less media-savvy organisation might have sat back and waited for the lurid headlines of a nation drowning in borrowing to be written. The banked tiers of seats in front were in a deep gloom that contrasted sharply with the lurid light flooding the tables. In the wake of a sensational murder case, local newspapers printed lurid headlines and helped increase passions in the city. An appellate court ordered them freed after nearly four years in prison, ending a sensationally lurid trial about alleged murder. Furthermore, his trademark fusion of ornate mysticism and lurid pop-art aesthetics had taken a toehold in New York's art scene as well. In 1957, Orson Welles finished filming his last American film, a lurid and misanthropical thriller, Touch of Evil. Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life. Apparently most members of the anti-war movement associate every day of the week with a lurid shade of blood red. Whatever the genre and the relative seriousness of intent, his work is always vivid, effervescent and sometimes unapologetically lurid. But what seduces me is the unfussy sleekness, the minimalist precision and playful pop, the lurid miasma of styles. Both served up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and deviously twisted or mistaken identities. She went on to paint a somewhat lurid picture of her father's itinerant lifestyle. I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton. The bolts of lightning threw lurid blue patterns across the walls and the rain beat a driving staccato on the roof. She has a lurid past of big yellow puffa skirts, fake orange tan and nun's habit dresses. What we have here is addictive old-school hokum, an American Gothic comic-strip with a whiff of Wise Blood to its lurid design. Show More Sentences Surely their fate carries with it lurid tales of hedonism and excessive violence? Such sentiments have been fed by lurid newspaper stories of heinous crimes committed by non-Japanese. Tons of people enjoy lurid palaver on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, and your specific frame of reference is not a bit rare. A description of this lurid affair would make a fitting postscript to Hunt's book. The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. She drew my attention to a recent wreck dive in the Firth of Forth and enclosed lurid Scottish newspaper cuttings about it. Maybe he received a garish jumper, a lurid tie or an outsized pair of slippers in his seasonal gifts. They emerged from a police station to detail the lurid allegations and their vehement denials. Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane. After all, Profiler is a lurid, pulpy sort of show meant to thrill audiences tuning in on Saturday nights. Here, he indulges a story as pulpy and lurid as his words and direction are spare and restrained. In a particularly lurid piece of purple prose, Poblete depicts the homecoming of one such starving worker. Is the carnage associated with them a result of lurid scriptural interpretations of religion which have effaced the life of the spirit? This wacky Canadian, who both wrote and directed this lurid spin on the Electra complex, cast his daughter in the lead role. These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid, light of a consistent value. The lurid technicolour of bruises, angry wounds, and welts marred his skin. A best seller is her tomato ketchup, which is a pale orange rather than the lurid red of the commercial variety. Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however. A high-profile civil case would mean lurid newspaper headlines and act as a block to any possibility of restarting a television career. During that half awake dozing between thwacks, I often drift into lurid dreams. Show More Sentences However, I was dismayed to see the lurid anti gay comments from one of the managing directors printed in your paper. Figuring she's the kind of gal who's turned on by a high roller, he uses the home of the Korean lobbyist he's working for to throw a loud, lurid party in her honor. His Hollywood hills living room was transformed into a lurid cross between a bordello, a crack house, a late-night talk show, and Andy Warhol's Factory. I choked on my croissant at the lurid accounts in the New York Times, which positively wallowed in the story. And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings. The play is lurid and sadomasochistic, the delight of Parisian decadents at the time, but slow, obvious, and overdone, as Wilde always was whenever he wrote tragedy. It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines. When Ian had moved into the room, the mould-peppered walls had been decorated with lurid orange-flowered wallpaper, redolent of stack heels, flares, beads and caftans. First, to rile up white people about black people and let their lurid imaginations roam. But only in recent years have athletes begun to divulge lurid details of Olympic sexcapades and debauchery. It seems strange to me, a visitor, that the stewed tea, rigid morals and lurid wallpaper of Fifties England should jump cultures so easily, but why not? It is a distinguishing characteristic of the breed that religious fanatics have a particularly lurid sexual imagination. In fact, it is quite obscenely lurid in its sheer, wanton yellowness. In those works, skies and landscapes seem filled with portents, animals convey a preternatural awareness, and lurid light touches everything with strange glamour. She even crimped her hair once, and we went lurid green with envy. It even seems to be straying into lurid, B-movie territory as we enter an all too familiar asylum where the patients haunt the corridors, drugged or demented. Surratt was hanged, despite her apparent innocence, and the scene is both vivid and lurid as onlookers celebrate. Zen Predator often reads like a soap opera, complete with lurid emails, shady financial dealings, and betrayals. The sketches take the reader into our lurid political past, the author tossing out the appositely tongue-in-cheek quote, the well-informed political parallel abroad. The double bed has been fitted out with a lurid, multi-coloured mattress cover the hues of which are reflected in a fan-shaped mirror attached to the bedstead. Show More Sentences Like a great tabloid headline, The adventuress by N.D. Coleridge promises a lurid story that spares no detail. Tabloid newspapers are running lurid accounts of his battle with cancer. Sometimes Powers had to deal with the sort of problems that are raw material for lurid tabloid headlines. The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs. The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book. Dave taunted the crowd with threats and obscenities, and finally soaked them with lurid synthetic bodily fluids. And gameplay is almost as irritating as the soundtrack and lurid colours. She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable. Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail. Westerners may have grown accustomed to lurid tales of European royals, but not so the thais. It was a head-and-shoulders caricature of Chamberlain looking bloated, ugly and malevolent, wearing a lurid orange tent-like dress patterned in ironic little hearts. Then the locals arrived for water aerobics conducted by a Riviera coach in lurid pink-and-black Lycra to French pop. When my house got broken into, my political convictions were instantly replaced with lurid revenge fantasies. She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery. The flexible, permanent set consists of a curved wall, covered with a disturbingly lurid purple wallpaper whose pattern varies in scale from normal to absurdly large. The young lady in question has asked protection from local authorities to protect her from journalistic assault by the lurid press that are delving into her background. He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion. I wore green nail polish and lurid green stockings to complete the effect. Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms. Despite lurid tales of the Russian mafia, they have far bigger fish to fry than tourists, so miscreants are no more than the petty chancers you'd meet in any Western city. Show More Sentences Greasy-looking drunkards occupied just about every bench and chair space, laughing rowdily while telling lurid jokes and singing bawdy sea chanteys. Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life. After a lurid trial, he finally beat the rap, but not before his political reputation was ruined. Percy did not care about the condition of this premature infant and left with Claire, Mary's stepsister, for a lurid affair. If her manner of opposing the debate was deemed objectionable, there were ways for people to disagree without resorting to lurid terrorisations. Yet the truth or falsity of the lurid report is almost beside the point. Worst are lurid claims about his antics with a dead pig's head in a bizarre initiation ceremony. This lurid embrace of art and life was not an isolated thunderclap. Greenock Prison has been at the centre of several lurid headlines over the years. Nightcrawler,'' a darkly comic, enthrallingly disturbing portrait of our universal appetite for lurid tragedy, marks a high point in Gyllenhaal's maturation. The lurid unearthly glow still hovered in the shadowy chamber, lighting ghostlily the dead face of Thugra Khotan, which seemed to grin mirthlessly and cavernously at them. Who knows what lurid imagery and subliminal messages I'll pick up? I woke with a stiff neck in slightly gasiferous sunlight, mechanically receiving a mug of lurid tea with a dash of petrol from one of my invincibles. When humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote his history Rerum Scoticarum Historia in the 1570s, a great deal of lurid detail had been added to the story. The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere. Examples from Classical Literature Filelfo retaliated by describing cicala's vices in the most lurid colours to Sixtus. The green flash of the second hour past midnight bathed the city in its split-second lurid glare. But he had his solemnities and she had her reveries, her lurid, violent, crude reveries. The lurid colouring of the young leaves is recalled in the flower-stems and calix, and enhances the colour effect of the whole. As for the delicious lurid function, snapdragon, is it obsolete in England yet? All the worlds wretchedness, sorrow, hunger, thirst and suffering lies behind the lurid lights of the redlight haunts. Thus the novel fires many a sanctimoniousness, makes lurid many a hesitating life. Others growled applause as they saw the den illuminated by the lurid flame of the candlewood which the proprietor lighted. The wind had fallen asleep in the pinelands and lurid sheets of heat-lightning flickered across the northern skies. The sun set, calm and golden, behind the purple hills, unscared by the lurid glow of a single bonfire. Like some ghostly bride he stumbled up through the lurid night, dragging the unwieldly train behind him. The redlight district gets its name because of the lurid, crimson signs that hang above its entrances. Night after night they saw the lurid glow of fires, for seventy-one places were burnt in the circles of Bautzen and Grlitz. To my unmitigated horror, a white and lurid object barred my way. There was another life beckoning, lurid tales of sexual conquest, all a sight more attractive than the advanced Latin declensions of Form Six. It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt. The lurid light of the fire showed us ourselves in distorted shadows. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior. Show More Sentences He was breathing forth vast volumes of sulphurous smoke and lurid blasts of flame. All The viands in their gravy's wine Grow lurid and fantastical. A fireball, which is an unusually lurid type of shooting star. The insect-species confined to sea-coasts, as every collector knows, are often brassy or lurid. On this gumboot Annie, when appealed to, threw a lurid local color. At night the skies were all glowing with the reflection of unseen fires, hanging in an immense body of lurid light high above the horizon. In a moment a terrifically lurid glare was cast over our decks. It was the work of a lurid lady novelist, popular some ten years before. New York publishers had introduced the dime novel, a lurid form that needed larger-than-life heroes. For lurid and perfervid language commend me to the Australian Tommy. Piers plowman gives us a lurid picture of what went on there. In the triumph of her lurid ending, Theodora made havoc of her pronouns. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous ideas, but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. He caught the color of what was passing about him, and threw it back more vividly than he received it, but mixed, nevertheless, with a lurid and portentous hue. Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct. A second later she recognized the lurid profanity of the Swede. Some of the deep gorges and defiles sent up sheets of flame, and clouds of lurid smoke, and sparks and cinders that in the night made them resemble the craters of volcanoes. These abandoned fortune seekers stand with fixed smiles in the lurid daytime-television landscapes, ringed by blinking lights and great escarpments of technicolor numbers. For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would shrivel me up, had I it. Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lurid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin lurid Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for lurid? What is the opposite of lurid? Words that rhyme with lurid What is the adverb for lurid? What is the adjective for lurid? What is the noun for lurid? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lurgy Lurex lurex lures lured lure luridly luridness lurie Lurie luring lurk 5-letter Words Starting With l lu lur luri