There was a lurid story about that section of town in the newspaper yesterday.    From LearnThat.org. 

lurid crimes.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

lurid details of the accident.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A lurid sunset.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The plays I had been in, with my parts underlined in lurid orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig] Reference

Its genius was frankly militaristic, its history is written in lurid characters before our eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annual Meeting and Ladies Night/Our Nation Considered as an Ethical Idea] Reference

If pop really did eat itself some 20-odd years ago, then recent months have seen it spew up the contents of its stomach in lurid fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future] Reference

Bones - calling the lurid story "totally fabricated and absurd.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Starpulse Entertainment News] Reference

DONALD WILLIAMS, ULSTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: And had an interest that I think can best be described as a lurid fascination with the details of what occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2005] Reference

This idea that somehow he's luring them up with this kind of lurid tale, this is a seduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2003] Reference

I am certainly put off standing for elections by the kind of lurid personal attacks that so many attract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who do so Few Candidates Have Blogs?] Reference

But the rest, in actuality, was gruesome, dark and self-destructive-the kind of lurid fodder that trashy "E!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Film Festival's Riveting Fare] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. WAINWRIGHT: ... it has a whole kind of lurid, desperate quality which I find very compelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loudon Wainwright's 'Charlie Poole Project'] Reference

Kirk Fordham told reporters he was trying to spare Foley's sister, Donna, and his ailing parents from the "lurid" details.    From Wordnik.com.  [10/04/2006] Reference

He knows his phone's tapped, and occasionally some of the more "lurid" conversations make him amused about what the listeners think of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congratulations, Sue!] Reference

HAYES: Well, it sounds like they're basically going to release the arrest warrant, which doesn't have a lot the kind of lurid details that people might expect it to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003] Reference

Ships are covered in lurid detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bataan Diary Reviews] Reference

But a kind of lurid brilliancy spread over the island, against which stood out confusedly the wooded masses of the heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Island] Reference

Bangor Superintendent John Reinhart says the district learned the "lurid" photo was being circulated among students on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference

It was to be a kind of lurid, vibrant hyper-realism, as real to the reader as if he or she were walking through the slum areas of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Elizabeth's sense of humour showed her the kind of lurid drama that Pamela no doubt was concocting about her -- perhaps with the help of Beryl -- the two little innocents!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth's Campaign] Reference

Peckinpah's paranoia about women is on ample and lurid display.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of A Bloody Great Classic] Reference

How much, if any, of this lurid testimony will ever be heard is unclear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paula Problem] Reference

The ongoing saga of Willem and Maxima isn't even the most lurid of the lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fractured Fairy Tales] Reference

Prosecutors will have some opportunity to check out Lewinsky's lurid account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And The Intern] Reference

When lurid tales from sex-abuse trials hit the news, parents get the jitters.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Safeguard Your Own Children] Reference

The first Doom succeeded because of its lurid 3-D graphics and its marketing scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Doom] Reference

C-Span viewers expecting lurid revelations during last week's debate were disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture Of The Long Goodbye] Reference

These are the horror movies that self-consciously act out our societal traumas in lurid allegories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloody Good Flicks] Reference

It won't be quite as momentous as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, but it promises to be just as lurid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Case No. 91-5482 Comes To Trial] Reference

Yet others worried that the 527s would indeed run lurid ads about Wright — and that McCain would get the blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Debates] Reference

Anderson doesn't spare us the lurid, exploitative aspects of this milieu, but his movie never feels like exploitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Porn In The U.S.A.] Reference

Jimmy, transfixed by this mystery woman, makes up a lurid fantasy: she's French, she's killed someone and she's on the lam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsession By The Sea] Reference

It includes the president's sworn deposition and lurid details about Clinton's alleged trysts -- charges he emphatically denies.    From Wordnik.com.  ['There Are No Curtains On The Oval Office'] Reference