Sentence example with the word 'tempts'

tempts

Last update: July 1, 2015


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Not until the third act does the great Wagner arbitrate in the struggle between amateurishness and theatricality in the music, though at all points his epoch-making stagecraft asserts itself with a force that tempts us to treat the whole work as if it were on the Wagnerian plane of Tannhauser's account of his pilgrimage in the third act.   [Please select]

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In New York you must go to it, but in these small places it hunts one out and tempts one.   [Please select]

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And there's the carpet-beetle, whose babies eat carpets unless your mother tempts them with pieces of red flannel.   [Please select]

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It is wicked to leave money where it tempts a good servant to dishonesty.   [Please select]

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_State of holding from_ something which tempts and entices; as, _abstinence_ from strong drink.   [Please select]

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I shall have to sign a pledge and cork up the only bottle that tempts me my ink-stand.   [Please select]

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Not a few now acted upon the suggestion of the devil who tempts through horse flesh.   [Please select]

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