alluring

Example Sentences

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The promise of a more climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels was alluring to Exxon—assuming the company could increase algae’s energy content enough to make it commercially viable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Venturing into this world as a teen had an alluring "cool" factor for Dr Aiqing Wang, now a senior lecturer in Chinese at the University of Liverpool.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

That’s what makes her so alluring as an actor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek helped Ottinger, 83, write the script, which is set in some of Vienna's most alluring locations.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The singing, thundering, magical words made her seem doubly dangerous, doubly alluring.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley