Example sentences for: tempted

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

  • I'm tempted to give Murakami the benefit of the doubt--to say, even, that his pat machinations force his readers into his crowd of wound-up dolls (of whom most died, remember, "plunging over the edge of the table").

  • I would be tempted to reply that lies and cover-ups intended to thwart the workings of democracy on an important public policy issue seem to me to be a lot worse than lies about an embarrassing personal mess.

  • There she will place her faith in a higher power and pray that next time she's tempted to discourse on that of which she knows absolutely nothing, He'll shut her up.

  • I was tempted to misquote Mae West: "God has nothing to do with it, honey."

  • You might be tempted to vanish, too.


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