enticement

Example Sentences

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Such uncertainty is the main enticement of this small, mercurial book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Oates leads us through Fox’s lurid world, drawing deliberately uncomfortable parallels between his calculated actions and the work of novelists and teachers, each of whom must also use enticement and enchantment to reach their mark.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Instead, the enticement of this sort of think piece delights not in the brutality of violence but in the intricacy of the artful con.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

The signature-gathering industry employs workers who go state to state for the best pay, and the combination of better weather and cash has been an effective enticement for some, Heywood said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2023

The same enticement that had led my grandparents to do the unthinkable now offered itself to Milton and Tessie.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides