Example sentences for: lurid

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

  • It may also be worth noting that with their red or white uniforms, these servants allowed Soutine to retain his lurid, fleshy palate.

  • To keep the colors fresh, he dabbed the carcass with blood from a pail, then grabbed his paintbrushes to capture those lurid reds on canvas.

  • To judge from your answers, the entire outfit is nothing more than a dumping ground for lurid videos of anorexic lawyers attacking pretentious investigators of paranormal cartoons, presided over by an immoral tycoon.

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

  • Brock, in case you've forgotten, is that young, gay, conservative investigative sex journalist who specializes in the reverse beatification of liberal saints in the gay-baiting American Spectator . After making his name with a best seller arguing that Anita Hill had mixed up Clarence Thomas with someone else, Brock became even more notorious by breaking, in the pages of the Spectator , the lurid tale that came to be known as "Troopergate."


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