How to Use blandishment in a Sentence

blandishment

noun

• Voters were subject to bribes, blandishments and threats in an effort to get them to the polls.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den.
  — Ruth La Ferla, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• Mr Xi’s innovation is to single out young Taiwanese and to pile on the blandishments.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• The sweetening tone was just the latest change in a roller-coaster game of brinkmanship — talks about talks with two unpredictable world leaders trading threats and blandishments.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2018
• But the sweet glaze of memory, like the blandishment of false philosophy, still offers glints of something darker beneath the surface.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018
• The blandishments of Gabo, as everyone called him, were impossible to deny.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
• Sift confectioner’s sugar into a bowl, whisk in lemon juice, add still more sugar to thicken: the blandishments of my loneliness are sweet and acidic, brushed on, carefully, with a fork.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• From their phones and screens, unemployed and underemployed young Saudis consume the West’s blandishments, as well as the sermons of jihadist preachers and the enticements of global terrorists.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Reports of gobblers hanging with flocks of hens and seemingly immune to even the most tempting blandishments of hunters, including gobblers ignoring or even avoiding decoys, have been ubiquitous during early weeks of this season.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• Companies abandoned facilities in long-term host communities to reap tax abatements and other blandishments brandished by other cities.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• Pharma companies spend billions on TV ads, doctor blandishments and expensive salespeople to keep prescriptions flowing.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2017
• Myanmar, which had long been dominated by anti-Chinese sentiment, is now accepting China’s blandishments.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017

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