How to Use attract in a Sentence

attract

verb

• The chance to travel around the world attracted me to a career as a flight attendant.
• The bird's colorful feathers are used to attract a mate.
• The scent will attract certain insects.
• Her bright blue eyes attracted me.
• The museum attracts visitors from all over the world.
• Certain insects are attracted by the scent.
• The company has a difficult time attracting good employees because of its poor pay and benefits.
• Not all public fields attract doves equally, either, as sunflowers are tricky to grow, and not all dove food plots are created equal.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• Ethanol also attracts and bonds with water from the air, and that water can separate out inside the tank due to phase separation.
  — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
• Fountains, an exclusive concierge service, and concerts attract visitors as well as shoppers.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
• See it for yourself above in the teaser, which serves to summon tomorrow's full trailer in much the same way that thumpers are used to attract Dune's signature sandworms.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 May 2023
• This will hurt broadcasters’ ability to attract audiences and, in turn, advertisers.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 May 2023
• In addition to the usual roach-attracting spots, like under sinks and in wall cracks, the best application is the four-corner method, which entails applying the product to every corner of each room.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• Bryant hopes to attract more donors in the coming year.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• But he isn’t attracted to her and hopes to throw her into the arms of his pal.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
• But who you’re attracted to — the who — is the most important thing.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• Food attracts stink bugs in your house just like other pests.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
• The Voie Verte, one of the oldest greenways in France, attracts many cyclists.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
• The goal for the park has always been to attract people to the city’s downtown, which was long home to offices, Ladd said.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• All that trash used to sit on the street out of containers for hours, attracting rats.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 15 May 2024
• Click here to read more about the way campaigns are leaning on Google and news to attract voters.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
• The restaurant is one of the most famous in the country, attracting hordes of tourists and locals alike.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
• Expect his food and drinks to attract many as people come from far and wide to Eden Roc for its Art Week events.
  — Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
• For starters, what attracts you to these down-on-their-luck everymen?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• And all he's done is now give someone else a chance to attract that vote in Iowa and South Carolina.
  — Jacob Rosen, Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
• What attracted me to this whole world was the intimacy of that tragedy.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• That’s too bad, both for the historical record and for the new buyers of Barbie that the film’s success will attract.
  — Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
• The honeydew—a sweet, clear liquid the lanternflies excrete as waste—attracts ants, wasps, and bees, which like to eat it.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• State lawmakers are debating a significant tax-break proposal to attract more data centers, Bridge Michigan reports.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
• The show has sold $80 million in tickets and appeared to attract movie fans, and new audiences to Broadway, but received mixed critical reviews and has seen a gradual decline in grosses and attendance.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024