INDUCEMENT in a Sentence

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1. Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.
2. We couldn't induce the old lady to travel by air.
3. Doctors said surgery could induce a heart attack.
4. His inducement was a bonus of one thousand dollars.
5. Nobody supposes that you were his first inducement.

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 Meanings and Examples of INDUCEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inducement
 n.  something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  He acknowledged no such inducement, and his sister ought to have given him credit for better feelings than her own.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  Nobody supposes that you were his first inducement.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
3  But a system of inducement which might have carried weaker country lasses along with it had merely repelled Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
4  I passed up the street, looking as I went at all the houses to the right hand and to the left; but I could discover no pretext, nor see an inducement to enter any.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  Mr. Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
6  Steerforth laughed to that degree, that it was impossible for me to help laughing too; though I am not sure I should have done so, but for this inducement.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
7  This was usually said in the Doctor's presence, and appeared to me to constitute Annie's principal inducement for withdrawing her objections when she made any.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
8  As to Franz, he had no longer any inducement to remain at Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
9  Under such an inducement it will cause no surprise that the young man lost sight for a time, of other objects in order to address them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
10  I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Probably the same motives which induced Cedric to open his hall to this son of a rejected people, would have made him insist on his attendants receiving Isaac with more courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  This circumstance induced Gurth to believe both that the gang was strong in numbers, and that they kept regular guards around their place of rendezvous.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  It was in vain that Cedric expostulated with his guards, who had too many good reasons for their silence to be induced to break it either by his wrath or his expostulations.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  But she, whose brain was burning with remembrance of injuries and with hopes of vengeance, was readily induced to devolve upon Rebecca the care of her patient.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced, till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put the matter by for the present.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  His inducement was a bonus of one thousand dollars.
2  Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced.
3  The monotonous routine of hospital life induced a feeling of ennui that made him moody and irritable.
4  The boys will be taken to an intensive care unit where they will remain in a drug induced coma for up to five days to prevent brain damage.
5  Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
6  They induced her to take the job by promising editorial freedom.
7  Malthus was burdened by a fatalism induced by fears of population growth and resource shortages.
8  We couldn't induce the old lady to travel by air.
9  Doctors said surgery could induce a heart attack.
10  These attractions induce people to travel in that country.
11  Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.
12  Taking a brisk walk can often induce a feeling of well-being.
13  After looking at the calendar and getting approval from doctors, they agreed to induce labor of daughter Lauren.
14  Music can induce a meditative state in the listener.
15  She was using all her powers of persuasion to induce the Griffins to remain in Rollway.