Example Sentences

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Born to a New Orleans Creole family, he was raised in a musically sophisticated household, where French opera was revered but the lure of the blues floated temptingly just outside his front door.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

It is temptingly easy to compare any softly lit interior containing one or two people to Vermeer, but the resemblance in some of these images is hard to avoid.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

I sensed the grueling nutritional pressure for a presidential candidate moving incessantly from event to event, city to town to rural gathering, always with food spread temptingly for the candidate.

From MSNBC • Apr. 15, 2019

It’s a reassuring, if temptingly reductive, message, consonant with recent war films that have rejected boo-yah bellicosity for more restrained portraits of military operators as principled, highly skilled professionals.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2016

The bullet was too hot to touch, but it shone so temptingly that sometimes Laura or Mary could not help touching it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder