Example sentences for: temptations

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

  • In the process he has become what, say, Arthur Koestler or George Orwell was in another time and place: one of those emblematic intellectuals whose career illustrates in microcosm the dilemmas, temptations, and betrayals of an era.

  • Agency management plays a key role in providing leadership in this area, especially in setting and maintaining the organization's ethical tone, providing guidance for proper behavior, removing temptations for unethical behavior, and providing discipline when appropriate.

  • He sees Washington as a city filled with "temptations" and pines openly for his family in Tulsa.

  • Robert G. Kaufman, in a long review in the Weekly Standard (which welcomes Buchanan's departure from the Republican Party), paints Buchanan as having gone over to the dark side: He's "a representative of one of the perpetual temptations of conservative thought."

  • 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.


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