Words similar to temptation

Example sentences for: temptation

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

As we learn more and more clearly in each volume, there are lots of ways to help the forces of darkness: You can join them with all your heart, but you can also succumb to prejudice, or self-righteousness, or some apparently silly temptation.
In addition, there is the temptation to be reassured by increasing gestational age as the potential complications of prematurity recede.
I cannot resist the temptation to add two fine examples of names matching professions after reading Jerome Betts's article All in the Family [XXII,1].
He lives them, wears them, and so is proofed against the temptation to follow the (logical) sequel to bourgeois success--the urge to abandon the self-denial that made it all possible, to mock your colleagues and spurn your peers, to return no e-mail, to call in sick from the beach house, to drink $20 bottles of wine every night, to watch porno movies in bed with ironic comp-lit graduate students, and to vanish for days on end in pursuit of un-bourgeois happiness.
It can accommodate the possibility that Clinton yielded to temptation as well as the (not completely incompatible) possibility that the whole thing was a vicious setup.