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Meanings of alluring in English
Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire.
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Examples for "attracting"
Examples for "attracting"
1
It's an international problem which is attracting attention of public health officials.
2
Power companies in Spain have been attracting foreign investment in past months.
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As well as consumer demand, other new initiatives are attracting market interest.
4
However, its medicinal properties have been attracting more attention in recent years.
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Or is this simply a way of attracting students to a course?
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Europe is seen as tempting as financial and political uncertainties have diminished.
2
The present situation is a tempting one for an incoming strategy guru.
3
As tempting as forcing the issue might be, I couldn't risk it.
4
It's tempting to shrug off such red ink as a temporary problem.
5
For some powerful interests, the rule of force, not law, remains tempting.
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And their best hope of doing this is with enticing food labels.
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And the enticing prospect of long, healthy walks in the great outdoors.
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Author, designer and illustrator Vasanti Unka on enticing young children to read.
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She said it as if she were enticing children to a game.
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TV View:A rout in sport is about as enticing as elevator music.
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Twigs' work has always been texturally beguiling, if not always melodically robust.
2
Could you possibly conjure a more beguiling image of modern day royalty?
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I have not your resources for beguiling the tedium of the way.
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They disappeared, swallowed up in the sinister light of a beguiling doorway.
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Sundry groups, in different corners, were beguiling the tedious hours at whist.
Usage of alluring in English
1
Yes, it is gymnastics; it is not grace; it is scarcely alluring.
2
He originally came over the plains in the gold-alluring days of '49.
3
His googly in particular had an alluring amount of dip and fizz.
4
To the pious it took on the alluring guise of a Crusade.
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Who'd have thought that such a simple thing could be so alluring?
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Among these one of the most alluring was the Philosophy of Kant.
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There is nothing more alluring than a woman who doesn't need attention.
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Red Brown stretched out on the springy, alluring sod near the building.
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The distant sound of the music has been alluring me very persuasively.
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Thus vine-planting and grape-tasting stretch away into an alluring and endless vista.
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Its haughty, unflinching glare had yet something seductive and alluring in it.
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The matrimonial shadow was more alluring to Alençon than the Netherland bone.
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The afterglow is by many considered more alluring than the sunset itself.
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There was a sparkle in her eyes that made her very alluring.
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A strong need to hunt down and flush out that alluring scent.
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Her appeal for him was that of the frail and alluring woman.
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