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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:
"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."
Reviewing dictionaries of this kind--those similar in content and purpose to what are called “college” or “desk” dictionaries in the US--is probably quite useless in providing guidance to potential purchasers: there is always the temptation to carp at omissions, cavil at what are seen as infelicities in defining and other information, and argue one's case against the theories that are reflected in the organization of the text.
While taking account of foreign sensitivities to American assertiveness, we must also be on our guard against a domestic temptation in the opposite direction.
When Clinton says, "Let us resist the temptation to copy ourselves," it comes from a man not known for resisting other temptations of the flesh.
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.