SEDUCTIVE in a Sentence

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Even through the dark tumult of her thoughts, the clink of Mr. Rosedale's millions had a faintly seductive note.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEDUCTIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seductive
 a.  tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Do try to be more subtle, more seductive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  But now his love was her only hope, and as she sat alone with her wretchedness the thought of confiding in him became as seductive as the river's flow to the suicide.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  Even through the dark tumult of her thoughts, the clink of Mr. Rosedale's millions had a faintly seductive note.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  Lifted by those eternal swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.
5  The sun was low in the west, and the breeze soft and languorous that came up from the south, charged with the seductive odor of the sea.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
6  The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  He did not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
8  Her seductive voice, together with his great love for her, had enthralled his senses, had deprived him of every impulse but the longing to hold her and keep her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
9  The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
10  He occasionally tried to fathom a comrade with seductive sentences.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  And of this seductive frame of mind the true source had been the eloquent discourse of his hospitable host.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
13  She was less dazzling in reality, but, on the other hand, there was something fresh and seductive in the living woman which was not in the portrait.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 9
14  Bonacieux had remained insensible to vulgar seductions; but at this period the title of gentleman had great influence with the citizen class, and d'Artagnan was a gentleman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
15  D'Artagnan reassured her as well as he could, and promised to remain insensible to the seductions of Milady.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
Example Sentence:
1  They have a pleasing, crisp crunch on the outside, and a seductive, slightly chewy interior.
2  An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.
3  He moved towards the seductive warmth of the fire.
4  The seductions of life in a warm climate have led many Britons to live abroad, especially in Spain.
5  It's true that, on the whole, Berlin never really delivers that soupy, cinematic style of seduction that Paris effortlessly ladles out to its visitors nor as much of the adrenaline whirligig as you might get in Manhattan.
6  She was looking seductively over her shoulder.