Words similar to lure

Example sentences for: lure

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Westmoreland tried to lure the enemy into big battles and stressed body counts.
When his landlord tried to lure him into a smaller apartment in the same neighborhood, he insisted that it would not befit a man of his "class and social station."
The malls play it both ways: They use Santa's physical presence to lure parents ("kids of all ages can have their photos taken with Jolly Old St. Nick") and then offer, for an additional fee, to put the pictures on Web sites or CD-ROMs so that kids "can send [the images] to their loved ones over the Internet ." Tysons Corner Center, a mall near Washington, D.C., brags about its "real-bearded Santa" and "his authentic Santa autograph."
Since then the myth has persisted that here encoded in these quasi-representational forms was the quintessence of thought, the eternal Platonic ideal, the Jungian Ur- symbol underlying all human cogitation--and by extrapolation, speech--the (al)lure of the fabulous (Far) East playing an obvious role.
With its centuries-old seafaring tradition, the Aegean has long been a lure to sports sailors.