Example sentences for: allure

How can you use “allure” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the film has the soul of a guidance counselor, and whenever it seems poised to go where no commercial American picture has gone before--to a place where our responses are gummed up, where we can grasp simultaneously the horror and the allure of the white supremacist movement--it snaps back into easy moralizing, demonization, and naive notions of how people change.

  • It's the uneasy conjunction of race and sexuality that rankles, the suspicion that for Manet, the black maid added a kinky allure to the charms of the snide white prostitute.

  • Ibiza, small as it is, is not one of those barren Mediterranean rocks with an allure that begins and ends at the beach, and although it’s a part of Spain, it is not the usual bullfight-and-flamenco scene.

  • The tension between Coalwood's malignant, subterranean caverns and the allure of space exploration has so much resonance that the story doesn't need the hard sell.

  • But profitable day trading certainly isn't, and the current mania for it is less a reflection of the moneymaking opportunities it offers than of the allure of easy credit and the seemingly unstoppable conviction of all gamblers that the house can be beaten.


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