Example Sentences

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“May December” pivots on who is seducing or manipulating whom, which plays out through the final scene.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2023

When Nicholas is seducing her, she expresses clear disdain for hosts, which seems odd at first because she’s clearly quite familiar with the park.

From The Verge • May 6, 2018

Orgon disbelieves that Tartuffe is seducing his wife, Elmire, and his blind faith is catastrophic.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2015

Returning to a character he has portrayed before, he is seducing audiences with his technical virtuosity, crunching on all those crisp consonants in Hare's talky script while wielding his wiry body like a conductor's baton.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2015

"Why, Aaron, you are using me ill; that shaver is seducing you altogether; but come, you won't be a week away, and if you want to go, I see no objection."

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael