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Example sentences for: temptation

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

I had best curb my temptation to reproduce the entire book here by stopping now, leaving readers with a great deal to look forward to.
There is the temptation to take the company's side, and the contrary temptation to prove one's independence with ostentatious criticism.
Look at Boxcar Bertha , a throwaway piece of apprentice-work he made for schlock impresario Roger Corman in the early '70s (if you've never seen it, imagine Bonnie and Clyde remade as an episode of Kung Fu ), and then look at The Last Temptation of Christ , the controversial, deeply personal rendering of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel which infuriated some Christians a decade and a half later.
No doubt--as former Congressional Budget Office Director Bob Reischauer points out--with all the election-year pressure on Republicans to show they really aren't so bad and the temptation for Clinton to show his newfound muscle, the final appropriations package isn't bad.
"When there is a need to make others wrong," Tannen argues, "the temptation is great to oversimplify" and to "seize upon the weakest examples, ignore facts that support your opponent's views, and focus only on those that support yours."