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How to use tempts in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tempts? Here are some examples.

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If I'm not working, I take Mabel, my Jack Russell, to Hyde Park, and not even the smell of bacon sarnies from the hot-dog stand tempts me.
Here, the path runs beside the river, which often tempts children in for a paddle.
But what tempts these youngsters to leave the security of home and lucrative jobs for an austere lifestyle of development work in India?
A despicable villain tempts a sinner and lures him into sin, alienation, and damnation.
As the flesh-like tones play off each other, the gritty, tactile nature of the surface tempts the touch of the viewer.
The doctrine likens a woman to an evil that tempts Adam to eat the apple in the Garden of Eden, which God has forbidden them even to touch.
It alienates our friends, who fear an insurgent victory, and tempts undecideds to join the anti-government ranks.
Once the delight and help of her husband, she is now the loathing of his soul and tempts him to absence and impurity.
Perfidy is a war crime, and it tempts combatants because perfidious military acts provide them with an advantage.
Gazette readers are heeding the warnings of the scam, which tempts people by saying they have won a holiday.
If an auto tempts you then check it well, particularly on low-mileage examples, which can suffer more from underuse than overuse.
The team tempts fate by planning a victory celebration before a ball has been kicked.
When we're nervous, the adrenaline rush we get tempts us to pick up the pace in everything we do, including speaking.
She tempts him to drink and he loses his precious manuscript.
This tempts with numerous wellness offers and offers every thinkable form of water fun for the entire family.
It tempts to exercise and travel in watery paths of pleasantness and peace.
The striking, handy shape is invariably an eyecatcher and tempts the consumer to pop one in the basket.
Chances are that he pretends as though he heard the voice of God and leads the people in the wrong direction or tempts them.
That tempts them to spend taxpayers' money on schemes that they might otherwise not bother with.
This then tempts it to accept non-payment by members so as not to lose the member.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She falls easily when the cunning Jean tempts her at the psychologic moment.
By my soul, if Sylvia tempts you, man, why the devil don't ye just succumb and have done with it?
Deep sunk in a subtropical valley, the irrigable alluvial land of Abancay tempts the production of sugar.
Finally no life assurance agent marks them for his prey, and no income-tax tempts them to lie!
Such a story tempts the allegorist, and indeed the main drift of its meaning is unmistakable.
She tempts fate when she carries on her gallantries and her Italian cicisbeism under the eyes of Scone Dacres.
He tempts him with a promise of this stephanotis bug, and off goes uncle, willingly.
Steenburgen will play an alluring motel proprietress named Jeannie who tempts Bryson when he and Katz stop into her establishment for the night.
Your Lordship tempts his servant to see whether he remembers the revelations imparted to him.
It is Apollyon who tempts Rome thus with the world and the flesh.
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