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# How to pronounce "lusting" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/lʌstɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **lu·sting**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb, noun
- **VERB**: present participle and gerund of lust
- **NOUN**: The act of one who lusts.
  - *Example*: "These depraved lustings after flesh, grease, narcotics, etc., are a disgrace to human nature; you ought to be ashamed of them, and eradicate and destroy them as soon as possible."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "lusting" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "I mean, I don't think there's a particular figure, but Israel is actually much less threatened than Taiwan. There's no great power that's lusting after Israel.” You can see the questions piling upon questions … and there are even more to come. The new president will NOT have a majority in parliament."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N1asMHRsvw&t=880s)

### Example 2
> "attained every proper means of lusting that power must be availed of a simple"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 150:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pPwB1rTJts&t=9037s)

### Example 3
> "Hunger, lusting, craving, desire are all psychologically destabilizing."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 26:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057mnWzLBcA&t=1560s)

### Example 4
> "um and you know and when you were somebody like me who had like really no money um and i mean i i remember just lusting after being able to buy like a transistor um you know and when i would do sort of electronics kind of projects they were mostly made done by like dumpster diving for trash"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT__Nrr3PNI&t=1140s)

### Example 5
> "condition plus love for radio vibrates in a museum in Bulgaria that's all coming up but we begin with an American icon ever since the' 70s cult movie Easy Riders Motorcycle fans the world over have been lusting after Harley-Davidson often called the biker bik its unmistakable exhaust sounds gets many a heart racing a world away from Harley's home turf this ultimate symbol of freedom and Adventure is Conquering New Frontiers people in Vietnam with a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQnna5Uh3zw&t=50s)

### Example 6
> "lot of special things about this for example this the lusting himself he was"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-U8jCx_IGE&t=3754s)

### Example 7
> "now and to be honest with you I'm lusting over everybody the postman when I go to the shop with the gentleman there and I think he's absolutely"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl9U8vkMvpU&t=327s)

### Example 8
> "I'm worried that in 20 years time I'm going to be sat on this podcast if people are still listening and I'm going to be sat with another scientist and he's going to be saying do you know that the uh Dr Robert lusting who you had on 20 years ago everything he said has been disproved and he's going to say fructose is the key apple juice is really important we found out that uh vegetables are causing autism did you ever see the movie sleeper no Woody"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 99:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DWKf5RqU-s&t=5998s)

### Example 9
> "we do so some people want to talk about the ethics of your thought and so forth lusting in the mind and so that's fine"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZVDvV5WjA&t=661s)

### Example 10
> "foods I've never felt the need to go and try another one another one the way that when I'm eating tortilla chips you know while I'm chewing on one tortilla chip I'm already you know lusting after the one that's in my hands right I'm not even like focused on the one that's in my mouth and so why is that I'm like that with so many foods like if I have one Pringle I"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It5DFXULOq0&t=2543s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [lubing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lubing), [lucking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lucking), [luding](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/luding), [ludling](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ludling), [luetin](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/luetin), [luffing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/luffing), [lugeing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lugeing), [lugging](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lugging)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "lusting" correctly?
"lusting" is pronounced `/lʌstɪng/`. Syllable breakdown: **lu·sting**.

### What does "lusting" mean in context?
present participle and gerund of lust

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