seduce

Example Sentences

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I also have questions for you about conscious or unconscious bias: What actual evidence do you have that this woman is trying to seduce your father?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

While Putin might not be willing to make concessions on Ukraine, Russia has tried to seduce the U.S. administration into lifting sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

She never mentioned Garfield by name but denied using a spell to seduce him and referenced how difficult she’d found being in the glare of the spotlight: “I don’t want to sit under anybody’s shadow.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

A man named Rufus is ordered to seduce and marry a wealthy woman at his sister’s expensive Hawaiian wedding in order to save his teetering family fortune.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024

White then explored the rumor that Rose Osage had killed Anna because Anna had tried to seduce her boyfriend, Joe Allen.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann