sex appeal

Example Sentences

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I ask Witherspoon how rare it is to see a female character like Maggie, who is not about her sex appeal but rather about her particular skill.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

Friedman says that Spears’s dancing was about her artistry, not manufactured sex appeal.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022

Diminutive and wiry, with mournful, beetle-browed eyes and a raspy tenor voice, Mr. Aznavour lacked the rakish sex appeal and ebullience of chanteurs such as Maurice Chevalier and Yves Montand.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2018

“Her publicity is focused more on her own derring-doishness and accomplishments than her sex appeal, much like a modern day Nancy Drew,” Kitty Curran tells TIME.

From Time • Jun. 23, 2016

But neither of you need expect anything,' she says, 'for the wrongs of my sisters have armoured me against the grossness of mere sex appeal.'

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon