allurement

Example Sentences

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The trouble is that females of the species Julodimorpha saundersii possess allurements that are orange and dimpled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

A world of such allurements had costs as well as rewards.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Its allurements draw you in, then the trap door slams shut and it devours you.

From Forbes • Feb. 3, 2015

Worse yet, even the artist Carlotta, who sees Alviano’s inner beauty, succumbs to the island’s tainted, toxic allurements — but in the arms of another man.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2010

She dried her eyes, and grew cheerful at the prospect They were still talking of the dinner and the allurements of city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the comer of the house.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin