Example sentences for: temptress

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

  • And to make those drunken rambling midnight phone calls to Bea Arthur: The temptress must die!"

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • Instead of being a Jezebel-like "temptress" (Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington ), she's an archetype of the blameless sexual assault victim.

  • Sometimes men see her as a temptress and a siren; she entices them to follow her, and then she frightens them with her horrible looks.

  • 3) She's a savvy, pernicious temptress.


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