How to Use inducement in a Sentence

inducement

noun

• Employees were offered a bonus as an inducement to finish the project on schedule.
• The low interest rate was little inducement for individuals to save money.
• Was his decision influenced by any illegal financial inducements?
• Even with these inducements, Ukraine might still refuse the call for a cease-fire.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
• The widening of the spread is an inducement for brokers to ship U..
  — Jessica Summers, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• In the private sector that would be called fraud in the inducement.
  — WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• And all that becomes an inducement to get a financier to put up the rest.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 July 2017
• Japan presents a powerful inducement not to grow the wheat.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2004
• But if the abatement is weighted more, So that there’s a bigger inducement to go and build an Hoff.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• Truth be told, for the stars, there are commercial inducements as well.
  — SI.com, 24 July 2019
• The edge of the rink delivered electric shocks when touched, an inducement to keep skating.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• People in Allendale want help to move to places where there are good jobs, not inducements to stay where there are none.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• This is not the mere inducement to a partnership, as described in South Dakota v. Dole.
  — Dave Yost, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• In order to move Smith's contract, Marchessault had to be used as inducement.
  — George Richards, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
• In other words, a strong inducement to borrow and spend remains.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Many more accepted thick envelopes of Russian rubles on top of their pay as an inducement to stay in their jobs.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The Bucks have sued the Van Dykes for breach of contract, civil theft and fraudulent inducement, among other claims.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• A number of top Wall Street banks are offering free food as an inducement.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• The Circuit panel’s inducement to Trump to appeal to the justices by this coming Monday was not an effort to speed the case along.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• Working with the world’s best coaches was a major inducement.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
• The sweepstakes appears to be little more than an inducement for getting people to call in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The pages center on Juicy's first encounter with the ghost of his father, Pap, and his father's inducement to seek revenge for his murder.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• After all, so the argument goes, what on earth can be a powerful enough inducement to give up his weapons?
  — Christopher R. Hill, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2017
• In the lawsuit, the Bloomberg campaign is accused of fraudulent inducement and breach of contract.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
• The city is planning several inducements for the project, Dibo said.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 6 Feb. 2018
• The only inducement to slacking off is a square of artificial turf and a mirror propped up in front to practice his golf swing.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Good workers were given a slice of their takings as well as other perks such as trips out to restaurants with the bosses as inducements.
  — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
• Employees may keep their 401(k)s and add money to them, but without the inducement of a company match.
  — Carrie McCabe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The full list of claims include fraud, fraud in the inducement, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, accounting and refusal to permit an audit of the Fugees’ tour.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• Though never intending to keep these promises, Johnson even dangled the prospect of adding the justice to his ticket in 1968 as a final inducement.
  — Michael Bobelian, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024