Example sentences for: tempted

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

  • They had wandered a long way from their home east of the Ural Mountains, and fell upon the land with such ferocity that the local people thought they too were Huns (one might be tempted to think this is the origin of the English Hungary).

  • Here you’ll be tempted by fine views of the sea; you may even catch sight of a cruise ship sailing gracefully into port.

  • If one's field touches on the medical profession, insurance, or any other area concerned with the bureaucracy (which I am always tempted to spell bureaucrazy), this is an essential aid in unraveling and clarifying—insofar as is possible—the verbiage that assails one from all sides.

  • The biographer of a great analyst is always tempted to prove something, to second-guess the dubious reader.

  • She only alludes to Tobe, failing to introduce him to the reader, who is tempted to conclude that Tobe belongs to the race of 6-foot-tall rabbits.


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