Example sentences for: lurid

How can you use “lurid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's jarring to move from the lurid theatricality of "Mein Kampf " to the head-on, propless portraits of Levinthal's "Blackface" series.

  • Such spectacles, they contend, make a lurid mockery of their tribal rituals.

  • Joel Schumacher, the director of 8MM , has none of Fincher's graphic originality, but the material still carries a lurid charge.

  • It's got to be no fun having a lurid joke embedded in your résumé.

  • Elizabeth is a lurid paraphrase of the old Groucho Marx line about Doris Day: "I knew the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin."


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