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Example sentences for: entice

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1) The gross-out scenes (one youth shtups an apple pie; another drinks a beer laced with semen) are just "sucker bait to entice teenage audiences into the tent to see a movie that is as sweet and sincere at heart as anything Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ever experienced" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). 2) Grossness is the film's essence: "[D]irty jokes are inserted at regular intervals like pop songs to perk up the action ...
Golf courses entice you to lower your handicap.
In the most tragic examples, a charismatic professor will entice them into a lifetime of French medieval history, about which their curiosity is exhausted before they get their Ph.D.s.
There is an inkling of this possibility early on, when the sorting hat, which places new students in their residential houses, tries to entice Harry to join Slytherin, where baddies like Snape and Malfoy hang out.
In an op-ed article Wednesday, the Financial Times of London said Khatami's objectives in Italy were threefold--to win Western endorsement for his reforming efforts, to foster international acceptance of Iran as a regional power with legitimate security interests, and to entice urgently needed foreign investment.