Example sentences for: temptation

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

  • There is the temptation to take the company's side, and the contrary temptation to prove one's independence with ostentatious criticism.

  • Unlike Martin Scorsese, whose solemn 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ set off a similar firestorm, Smith has earned the wrath.

  • Or, of course, Bob Dole could resist temptation.

  • This week in The Temptation of Bob Dole, SLATE's Washington editor, Jodie Allen, cruelly analyzes the arguments for a tax cut.

  • McCain says this not with contempt, but with pity for those of his colleagues who cannot resist political temptation.


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