How to use "lurid" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "lurid" in popular movie and book plots

  • Roger desperately tries to marry off the women to other men to avoid a lurid scandal.  - Exploits of a Young Don Juan
  • When Serafin confronts Maury with the lurid details, he is disappointed, for Maury refuses to be outraged.  - Transgression (1931 film)
  • in the lurid clouds of war".  - 100,000 Cobbers
  • The story Antoine tells compresses several years of horrific and lurid events into about 5,500 words.  - Le Mulâtre
  • He paints such a lurid picture of Eponine's crime that it gets her convicted.  - Crack in the Mirror
  • Wes gets violently upset when he discovers she's been performing lurid sex acts on her customers just to make the extra money he wants.  - On the Doll
  • The journal features lurid sex scenes between the beast and its author, the house's prior owner.  - The Beast House
  • But the simple fact that Des had any kind of involvement in such a lurid case could permanently stain his reputation with the church.  - True Confessions (film)
  • Abigail becomes frustrated at work at the increasingly lurid and bloodthirsty stories the money-hungry Murdock demands.  - Artists and Models
  • Meanwhile, Victoria begins a lurid affair with the passionate captain while Richard ravenously pursues and humiliates Higgins, a young sailor.  - Titanic (play)
  • A not-quite lurid view of life in Hollywood follows.  - Play It as It Lays
  • The lurid details of the case are suppressed; Benito and a cynical old woman know what has happened.  - The Crime of Father Amaro
  • He examines the bit of manuscript retained by mrs Maberley, and it appears to be the end of a lurid novel.  - The Adventure of the Three Gables

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