SEDUCE in a Sentence

Learn SEDUCE 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.

20 example sentences for SEDUCE, such as:

1. A Grey Friar, who was my confessor, easily seduced me.
2. She will try to seduce you, perhaps she will try to kill you.
3. Besides, you will always have your charms left to seduce them with.
4. Eight days later she had seduced the son of the jailer, and escaped.
5. In Greek mythology, the god Zeus took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SEDUCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seduce
 v.  tempt; entice; lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  She will try to seduce you, perhaps she will try to kill you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
2  Besides, you will always have your charms left to seduce them with.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
3  He had never once disobeyed or allowed turbulent companions to seduce him from his habit of quiet obedience; and, even when he doubted some statement of a master, he had never presumed to doubt openly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  A Grey Friar, who was my confessor, easily seduced me.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
5  Grantaire had seduced Joly and Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards cheerfulness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
6  My friend, who was seigneur of the country, might have seduced her, or taken her by force, at his will--for he was master.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
7  It was not difficult to conquer, as she had hitherto done, men prompt to let themselves be seduced, and whom the gallant education of a court led quickly into her net.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
8  You have seduced this young girl; you have outraged, defiled her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
9  She undertook his seduction, and succeeded; she would have seduced a saint.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
10  Eight days later she had seduced the son of the jailer, and escaped.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
11  Valentine, the hand which now threatens you will pursue you everywhere; your servants will be seduced with gold, and death will be offered to you disguised in every shape.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 101. Locusta.
12  The man who had seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on this she told him her father's name.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
13  Often the delight of the roaming eye seduced her--a sunbeam, a shadow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
14  This spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  I could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had removed from him only to sink deeper in a life of sin.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
Example Sentence:
1  The temptation of easy money did seduce her to work in a massage parlor.
2  In Greek mythology, the god Zeus took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
3  If the world were seeking a real-life Willy Wonka, it would have struggled to get closer than Michele Ferrero, the confectioner who seduced millions with his genius for mass-market chocolatey sweetmeats and yet remained an enigmatic recluse.
4  Unscrupulously seducing the daughter of his host, Don Juan felt no qualms about the immorality of his licentious behavior.