Example sentences for: temptation

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

  • It seems to me that Harry's final confrontation with the dark forces will have to involve his overcoming the temptation to join them.

  • If one has become accustomed to a particular manual, the temptation is to stay with it: it is like a comfortable old shoe; even when a new edition becomes available, the information appears in approximately the same place and in a familiar format.

  • Those who might accurately be termed “anti-meliorists” wonder how we will ever resist the obvious temptation to put this knowledge to use to alter ourselves.

  • I think he's more likely to be caught by that kind of temptation than by a hunger for power.

  • It said there is no need for a further law on full emergency rule, "nor should Moscow police fall prey to the traditional temptation to arrest every dark-skinned man in the capital."


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