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 Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

Its shapes and sounds and silences and colours have allured me from first acquaintance.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

I have with fierceness mankind oft-times corrected, And again I have allured him by sweet promise.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

The fine linen, the soft pillows, the downy blankets, would have allured even a man who was not tired.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson