TEMPT in a Sentence

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For TEMPT, below is one of 111 sentences:
I will go to you, and we will fly; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt providence, let us not see each other.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tempt
 v.  give rise to a desire by being attractive
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Bursting their jackets one day and the next turning up their noses at the best meals Cook can tempt them with.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  He said to himself that if he had strength enough to get back to the spring he would stay there, and nothing should tempt him to run the risk of meeting Injun Joe again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  Well, Mercedes, beloved by you, I would tempt fortune; you would bring me good luck, and I should become rich.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
4  I spoke to Benedetto alone, and proposed to him to accompany me, endeavoring to tempt him by all the promises most likely to dazzle the imagination of a child of twelve.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
5  I will go to you, and we will fly; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt providence, let us not see each other.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
6  I am in great want, but I will not take anything at all till then, for I hate a man, even as I hate hell fire, who lets his poverty tempt him into lying.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
7  We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38
8  He hesitated, and then snatched it from my hold; as if he fancied I only intended to tempt and disappoint him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Even the offer of a kitten or even a full-grown cat will not tempt him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  He would never again tempt by a prayer any terrible power.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
11  He would never again tempt innocence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
12  Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
13  He still walked onward, if that movement could be so described, which rather resembled the wavering effort of an infant, with its mother's arms in view, outstretched to tempt him forward.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
14  Arobin pulled off his coat, and expressed himself ready and willing to tempt fate in her place.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
15  He had no appetite, and they could not afford to tempt him with delicacies.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible.
2  Credit cards can tempt you to overstretch yourself.
3  Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
4  An open door may tempt a saint.
5  The new program is designed to tempt young people into studying engineering.
6  Increased oil revenues can also tempt Gulf governments to spend more on arms.
7  I knew there was one mean ram we had to avoid, but we decided to tempt fate, a big mistake.
8  In addition, many soaps and shampoos come in delicious scents that can be tempting for a child.
9  It would be tempting to read his gee-whiz protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue.
10  I made him what I thought were several tempting offers, but he wouldn't bite.
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.