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• The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from…. From the entry old man yells at clouds
• Part of the allure of leapfrogging was the difficulty of simply catching up.2015, Levi Tillemann, The Great Race, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry leapfrogging
• She was also as mad as a cut snake, which only added to her allure.2010, Kate Jennings, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 70. From the entry mad as a cut snake
• The crescent-shaped jaw typically supported a smile that was Cleopatran in its allure.2009, Dave Russell, Raritan Female Institute, page 90. From the entry Cleopatran
• Baker’s ostentatious laid-backness subversive, to imbue it with so much bad-boy allure.2007 June 3, Terrence Rafferty, “A Jazzman So Cool You Want Him Frozen at His Peak”, in New York Times. From the entry glamorizer
• But for a nonfisherman the tarpon's allure is more elemental: we know so little about it.1983, Texas Monthly, volume 11, number 1, page 72. From the entry nonfisherman
• Lignite's nickname “dirty coal,” suggests its one major drawback, but its allure is clearly its cost.1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times. From the entry dirty coal
• Its effect was to rob her of connubial allure—in her words, ‘it stole her nature’.1941, William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee, page 305. From the entry nature
• She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him—and he adores it.1919 June, Renee Van Dyke, “Interesting Paragraphs about the Players”, in Geo[rge] M. Downs, Jr., editor, The Photo-play World, volume 2…. From the entry vamp
• My first thought was of Paul Klee, that kind of love-at-first-sight allure, seductive hand-madeness and unfiltered accessibility, only bigger and stronger.2020 June 26, Roberta Smith, “The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry handmadeness
• The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry moneyscape
• Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 95. From the entry anabaptist
• The scales fall from your eyes pretty quickly but the allure of Bond and Bondiana is potent while it lasts.2007, William Boyd, Bamboo: essays and criticism. From the entry Bondiana
• Meditative and mystical circles, like the Jewish cabalists, have always sought to guard against the allure of unembodiment.2001, Marshall Berman, Adventures in Marxism, page 24. From the entry unembodiment
• While the allure of multifeatured new condominiums, with their full-service gyms and children’s playrooms, may be fading in the deepening recession, Mr.2009 February 8, Josh Barbanel, “For Bob Vila, Move-In Condition”, in New York Times. From the entry multifeatured
• The unprofessional production of the skits, shot on handheld digital video without the assistance of a 'steady cam' device, contributes to their unvarnished allure.2008, Robert Sweeny, “This Performance Art Is for the Birds”, in Studies in Art Education, volume 49, page 138. From the entry unvarnished
• On the soulful torch song "Dream," which Smith wrote, she conveys a sophisticated allure that would seem well beyond her twenty-seven years.2006 September 7, Evan Serpick, “10 artists to watch 2006: The Noisettes, Jibbs, Silversun Pickups and seven other up-and-comers”, in…. From the entry chanteuse
• Remarkably, higher education's allure has persisted despite recent efforts to tarnish it by academic management and mass media orchestration of an anticollege crusade.1983, Barbara Ann Scott, Crisis Management in American Higher Education. From the entry anticollege
• A high price to one so afflicted is a temptation and peril; it enhoneys and allures, inflames him with renewed madness for possession.1950, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Illinois, published 2001, page 551. From the entry enhoney
• Moses warns his followers against the allure of sun- and star-worship; and Ezekiel mentions seeing, in a vision, twenty-five men of Judah worshipping the sun.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry sun worshipper
• That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork. From the entry sorcerous
• Despite the Hogwartian allure of Yale’s Gothic-style colleges, Muggle undergraduates may have to look elsewhere to catch a true glimpse of the magical world of Harry Potter.2007 October 30, Patrick Lee, “For seminar selection, Potter will have to wait”, in Yale Daily News, page 3. From the entry Hogwartian

Meaning of allure

1. noun The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
2. verb To entice; to attract.
3. noun Gait; bearing.

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How do you use allure in a sentence?

Allure is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.”

What is a short sentence with allure?

“Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?”

What does allure mean?

Allure means the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.