LURE in a Sentence

Learn LURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

31 example sentences for LURE, such as:

1. An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
2. The animal was lured out of its hole.
3. He had lured his victim to a deserted house.
4. She used all her lures to attract his attention.
5. The person's value, is decided at the moment of luring.

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 Meanings and Examples of LURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lure
 v.  bait; charm; attract
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  He had hoped that his wife might lure Sir Charles to his ruin, but here she proved unexpectedly independent.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
2  Alas," he said to himself in his dismay, "this is only some one or other of the gods who is luring me to ruin by advising me to quit my raft.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
3  In the case of Mr. Gryce she had found it well to flutter ahead, losing herself elusively and luring him on from depth to depth of unconscious intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  This is the more natural as the favourite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
6  The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The North could call on the whole world for supplies and for soldiers, and thousands of Irish and Germans were pouring into the Union Army, lured by the bounty money offered by the North.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Choke-cherry blossoms lured her from the outer sun-warmed spaces to depths of green stillness, where a submarine light came through the young leaves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Jake Marpole, lured by Otto's stories of adventure, decided to go with him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
10  There was no chance for a woman at the steelworks, and Marija was now ready for work again, and lured on from day to day by the hope of finding it at the yards.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
11  Uninvited, unexpected, droppers-in, lured off the high road by the very same instinct that caused the sheep and the cows to desire propinquity, they had come.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
12  Here, signed with her initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped into her hand at the door and which lured her within their reach.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
13  When the Huns lured the king into the great pit, he flung it away--Procopius tells the story--nor was it ever found again, though the Emperor Anastasius offered five hundred-weight of gold pieces for it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  He had often told the girl whom he had lured to love him that he was poor, and she had believed him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
15  And farther still, beyond those forests and fields, the bright, oscillating, limitless distance lured one to itself.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  British Airways has used the lure of a free upgrade to Concorde to persuade businessmen to insist on BA premium class tickets.
2  The state police nail a cracker called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers.
3  By this method, the lure is working as soon as it hits the water instead of sinking.
4  The bank launched an advertising campaign to lure back its traditional customers.
5  An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
6  The person's value, is decided at the moment of luring.
7  The animal was lured out of its hole.
8  He had lured his victim to a deserted house.
9  He lured her to his home and shot her with his father's gun.
10  People may be lured into buying tickets by clever advertising.
11  She was lured into the job by the offer of a high salary.
12  The outrage echoed that of 2015 when a Minnesota dentist killed a well-studied lion nicknamed Cecil after he was lured out of a protected Zimbabwe park.
13  She used all her lures to attract his attention.