seductress

Example Sentences

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In “Autumn Meeting,” a Budapest seductress beguiles an out-of-work jockey with romantic tales of love spurned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

One welcome shift from past cinematic renderings is screenwriters Peres Owino's and NneNne Iwuji's emphasis on Cleopatra's shrewdness as a political and military strategist, traits often subsumed by her legend as a seductress.

From Salon • May 11, 2023

But without hints from the announcers, I’d probably guess that Chock was a witch seductress and Bates a young soldier; maybe the routine would read more like a very strange retelling of Macbeth.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2022

“My friend,” one seductress says to her besotted mark, “I think it’s time someone told you: You are not as special as you think you are.”

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

The one person she really did blame was the wretched, vain, empty-headed, ungodly Aileen Butler, who had been his seductress and was probably now to be his wife.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore