TEMPTING in a Sentence

Learn TEMPTING 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.

111 example sentences for TEMPTING, such as:

1. An open door may tempt a saint.
2. To herself, individually, it was most tempting.
3. Credit cards can tempt you to overstretch yourself.
4. This was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist.
5. Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tempting
 a.  attractive; appealing
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Mammy brought up tempting trays, insinuating that now she was a widow she might eat as much as she pleased, but Scarlett had no appetite.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  "I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Never had that lady seemed a more tempting subject than at that moment, seated there like some sensuous Madonna, with the gleam of the fading day enriching her splendid color.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
5  It consisted of very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
6  This was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
7  These melancholy openings which take place in the gloom before despair, are tempting.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
8  On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
9  How tempting, how very tempting, to let the view triumph; to reflect its ripple; to let their own minds ripple; to let outlines elongate and pitch over--so--with a sudden jerk.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
10  To herself, individually, it was most tempting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12  The Widow Douglas' splendid hospitality was a tempting bait.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  So she went by herself into her chamber, and got ready a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whoever tasted it was sure to die.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOWDROP
14  The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
15  Demi paused to consider the new relationship before he compromised himself by the rash acceptance of a bribe, which took the tempting form of a family of wooden bears from Berne.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  In addition, many soaps and shampoos come in delicious scents that can be tempting for a child.
2  It would be tempting to read his gee-whiz protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue.
3  I made him what I thought were several tempting offers, but he wouldn't bite.
4  Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible.
5  Credit cards can tempt you to overstretch yourself.
6  Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
7  An open door may tempt a saint.
8  The new program is designed to tempt young people into studying engineering.
9  Increased oil revenues can also tempt Gulf governments to spend more on arms.
10  I knew there was one mean ram we had to avoid, but we decided to tempt fate, a big mistake.
11  Directors may be tempted to act in their own self-interest.
12  I was almost tempted to strip off and plunge straight into the pool.
13  He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
14  I was sorely tempted to say exactly what I thought of his offer.
15  Sabine was sorely tempted to throw her drink in his face.