She turned to the next cutting in the hope of finding a less lurid account of the case.

Newspapers printed increasingly lurid accounts of the Fund and its beneficiary.

Yet despite lurid literary accounts to the contrary, 19th-century London was not a hotbed of opium smoking.

In an essay on this song, Carla Ramsey offers an almost lurid account of the final section:

Newspapers relay lurid accounts of murders, kidnappings and businessmen blown up in their Mercedeses.

I suppose I could have written a more lurid account.

Gibbon gives us a concise but lurid account of his own boyhood.

But such cases are the stuff of made-for-television movies and lurid accounts on local newscasts.

The expedition was accompanied by two newspaper reporters whose lurid accounts later appeared in the eastern newspapers.

Their recollections contain lurid accounts of the women and violence accompanying the shows.