Example sentences for: tempt

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

  • Tour buses plow a path around the attractions, and duty-free shops tempt you to buy that little luxury item you’ve been denying yourself for so long.

  • A prominent Israeli rabbi voiced fears that the live broadcast would tempt even devout Jews to the television.

  • And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.

  • Through all the changes that Acapulco has experienced over the years, this sultry diva of a destination continues to seduce visitors, and tempt them into “just one more dance before calling it a night…”

  • The forested Malabar coast in the west is sown with crops of coconut, betel-nut, pepper, rubber, and cashew nut, which today still tempt ships across the Arabian Sea.


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