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.
• Bryant hopes to attract more donors in the coming year.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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 duo’s set on Friday attracted lots of bony youngsters in skullcaps.
  — M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
• Some of these scholarships are used to attract wealthy students.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Take a cue from Zillow's research and look to moody colors rather than the usual white or taupe to attract buyers.
  — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2024
• That was to attract top talent and boost the company, as any smart businessperson would do.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps to attract more users, Musk made Grok open-source earlier this month.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• The argument that appeared to attract the most support among the justices questioned the state’s power to decide the case at all.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• If the goal is attracting more people and businesses to the District, waging a war on cars seems like an odd way of doing it.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• The final auction of a lunch with Buffett two years ago attracted a record $19 million price that isn’t likely to be matched.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• In Brook Park, his job involves attracting new businesses to that city.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• My father asked me if being attracted to men meant that I was attracted to him.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
• Black flags are sometimes used to attract attention at a distance.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
• Many schools are also trying to come up with ways to attract and train more faculty members.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• At the time, streaming services were in an expensive arms race for content to attract new subscribers.
  — John Carreyrou, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Old food attracts flies and other pest and could possibly cause illness in the animal.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2024
• While the sounds and the faces may be fresh, these artists are heirs of a musical tradition that has long attracted controversy.
  — Elda Cantú, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Don't miss the Christmas markets in Innsbruck and Tyrol, which attract vendors from all over Europe.
  — Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024