ATTRACTIVE in a Sentence

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During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing.

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 Meanings and Examples of ATTRACTIVE
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attractive
 a.  very pleasing in appearance or sound; inviting or tempting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It seemed strange now that when she was growing up Ashley had never seemed so very attractive to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  It distracted her from her thoughts and she was very anxious to arrange both her thoughts and her face in attractive lines before reaching Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  All of the interesting young men were gone-- the four Tarletons, the two Calverts, the Fontaines, the Munroes and everyone from Jonesboro, Fayetteville and Lovejoy who was young and attractive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  She busied herself arranging the articles in the booth in more attractive display, while Scarlett sat and looked glumly around the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  It wasn't fair that she must keep her voice low and her eyes cast modestly down, when men, attractive ones, too, came to their booth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Other women's husbands you let severely alone, even if they were your own discarded beaux, and no matter how temptingly attractive they were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Besides, these men wounded in the retreat were not so attractive as the earlier ones had been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  No, they were not an attractive lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  When he climbed into the buggy and took the reins from her and threw her some impertinent remark, she felt young and gay and attractive again, for all her worries and her increasing bulk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
16  An exuberant player with attractive tones on both tenor and alto, Red Holloway is also a humorous blues singer.
17  Just keep in mind that being frugal is not a bad thing, but being cheap is not so attractive.
18  In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials.
19  I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South.
20  The perquisite attached to this job makes it even more attractive than the salary indicates.
21  Mr. Spock's features, though angular, were curiously attractive, in a Vulcan way.
22  Police believe the ruse is attractive to criminal gangs because the profits are similar to those made by trafficking drugs, but with less punitive penalties.
23  During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing.
24  Bessie's accounts of school-discipline were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishment attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.
25  If the trespasser is a child, you face a greater risk of liability, especially if the child was drawn to your property by an attractive nuisance, such as a pond.
26  The nursery teacher clapped her hands to attract the children's attention.
27  This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.
28  He clicked his tongue to attract their attention.
29  She used all her lures to attract his attention.
30  By sighing away for hours, she hoped to attract her family's attention to her suffering.