Example sentences for: tempt

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

  • Now, road-side look-outs tempt travelers and aspiring photographers onto jutting crags high above terraces of orange and lemon groves, vineyards, walnut, and almond trees.

  • 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.

  • During the day the duty-free shops in this Mediterranean-style shopping village tempt shoppers with jewelry, clothing, and perfume; colorful wooden huts house craft stalls selling straw work and carvings.

  • Midnight snacks have costs (usually measured in calories or grams of fat), but they must also have benefits--otherwise, they wouldn't tempt us.

  • Pretty tavernas set tables out in the street and tempt you with fresh seafood caught by the small fishing boats in the harbor.


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