seduction
noun
an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
seductions
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pluralof seduction.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Sonic Youth pulls the throttle all the way out: Moore threads drumsticks into his guitar strings, Ranaldo utilizes an electric drill onstage, Gordon barks out her bold feminist anthems on the seductions of consumer-driven desire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
In the meantime, an ever-expanding audience found their own lives in her songs: in their desires, jealousy, doubts, seductions, setbacks and triumphs, and in their leisurely grooves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
There was rhapsody in these musical seductions — and the calculation that the way to theater lovers’ hearts was through their cast albums.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021
Time’s Up didn’t quite assert that women were immune to the seductions of power and money.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2021
In fact, it is only the great passions which, tearing us away from the seductions of indolence, endow us with that continuity of attention, to which alone superiority of mind is attached.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
