How to Use seduce in a Sentence
seduce
verb- He tried to seduce her.
- She was seduced by an older man.
- The other team seduced him with a better offer.
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But the Day-Glo hues all caress and smack and seduce the eye.
— Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Take the time to seduce yourself and touch all over your body.
— Vanessa Marin, Allure, 28 June 2018 -
Young, cis women seem to have been seduced by it the most.
— Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2018 -
But Hiram isn't the only guy who Hermione seduces in the episode.
— Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 8 Nov. 2018 -
Rome seduces you, and warns you: ‘Being with me is tough.
— Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023 -
George's mother Mary (Moore) has urged her son to seduce the King to gain wealth and power in the British court.
— Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024 -
Part of the drama of the novel is the way David is at first seduced by these ideas and then discards them.
— Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024 -
Everything from the being seduced by the dark side to the power of two.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 July 2024 -
And then seduce Tom in the kitchen while he's blindfolded?
— Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2021 -
Will the throng be seduced by the Marcoses’ glamour once more, or will the people rise against it?
— Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023 -
In one episode, Ben dances for Jen in a blend of trying to cheer her up and also seduce her a bit.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2020 -
But it’s being seduced by the wrong thing if the numbers are guiding you.
— Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023 -
Since Ra-el can’t take down LY group by force, her plan is to seduce and destroy Yoon-kyum.
— Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 3 June 2022 -
Dornan, not seduced by the idea, asks Corden what's in the playroom.
— Katie Kilkenny, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2018 -
Each drop of the rod puts slack in the line, which lets the Senko seduce bass with a horizontal fall and flutter.
— John Merwin, Field & Stream, 22 May 2019 -
The best way to neutralize them is to ignore them...or seduce them.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021 -
Mi-nyeo tries to seduce and threaten herself into a team but ends up the odd man out, and the guards drag her away.
— Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021 -
This wine seduces with flavors of mango and pineapple, with a spritz of lime.
— Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023 -
The revival of the 1978 Bob Fosse revue is eager to seduce you.
— Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023 -
How better to do that than have the kid be seduced by an older woman?
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023 -
SHoP’s 111, however, works hard to seduce us all and to be a good New Yorker.
— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 June 2021 -
To trap the prince, the sorcerer sends his daughter Odile, disguised as Odette, to seduce him.
— Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024 -
In 1837, after his brother-in-law tried to seduce her, Pushkin would be killed in a duel.
— The Economist, 4 June 2020 -
And the shrewdest trick of the movie is the way Samuel uses those protocols, and the breaking down of them, to seduce Romy into crossing the line.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024 -
The Florida Keys seduce the visitor with the promise of a blank slate.
— Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021 -
What is the role of synthetic panel interviewers so they are not seduced by form and fail to see the essence?
— Juan Isaza, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Police later learned that the prisoners had seduced the seamstress as a part of their escape plot.
— Emily Blackwood, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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