Example sentences for: attract

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

  • Of the 75,000 talented people he hopes to attract to teaching each year, he thinks 60,000 should be new college graduates and 15,000 should be "mid-career professionals" who want to change jobs.

  • My files are as full as any policy wonk's with scholarly studies demonstrating that using tax lures to attract jobs and taxpayers often ends up robbing not just Peter, but Paul as well.

  • Doyle McManus decoded Hamdoon on PBS's Washington Week in Review . Saddam had played a successful bait-and-switch game on the West: First, he conjured up the bogus inspector crisis--complaining about U.S. domination of the U.N. teams and ejecting them--to attract the world's attention.

  • Selena's death did inspire an outpouring of grief and attract the attention of the mainstream media (inspired by the success of their Selena-memorial issue, People launched a Spanish version of the magazine).

  • Loveless Bob has no such gene, and thus stands on the bank wondering whether his brother's corpse will attract any large, edible fish.


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