allure
verb (used with object)
to attract or tempt by something flattering or desirable.
have allured
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present perfectof allure.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Other diets have allured fans over the years with the promise of easy weight loss through a single miraculous food.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2017
If selfishness, greed, or pride have allured them for a while from that royal path of national rectitude and honor, they have in the final test returned conquering to their true and higher selves.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
I have with fierceness mankind oftentimes corrected, And again I have allured him by sweet promise, I have sent sore plagues, when he hath me neglected, And then by and by most comfortable sweetness.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
Its shapes and sounds and silences and colours have allured me from first acquaintance.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
The fine linen, the soft pillows, the downy blankets, would have allured even a man who was not tired.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
