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How to use entice in a sentence

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Entice means to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. Example: “I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.”

Examples of entice by meaning

verbTo lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

  • I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
  • And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page...

More sentences with entice

  • “Blasphemous” is a masterfully crafted game that would entice hardcore fans of Soulsborne and Metroidvania games.2022, Gabrielle Cabello Torres, "From The International: Video Games From Different Cultures", Mace & Crown (Old Dominion University…. From the entry Soulsborne
  • Centuries ago Blackbeard the pirate false-flagged to entice lootful vessels to draw closer.2011, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga, page 19. From the entry false flag
  • A cackle of hyenas had her surrounded, enticed by the smell of her just-given birth.2004, Gregory Townes, The Tribe, Black Print Pub., page 6. From the entry cackle
  • What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page v. From the entry K2
  • The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60. From the entry udder
  • Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88. From the entry ducat
  • Enticed by boozy tubing experiences, throngs of twentysomething backpackers cemented its spot on south-east Asia’s famed backpacker trail.2024 November 22, Adeshola Ore, Kate Lamb, “Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What…. From the entry tubing
  • “When farmers learn some Spanish, it actually entices and motivates the Spanish speakers to want to learn English,” she said.2024 August 24, Lisa Z. Leighton, “Farmer Teaches Spanish to Ag Industry”, in Lancaster Farming, volume 69, number 48, Ephrata, Penn.…. From the entry language-learning
  • He seeks to entice me with unmuggy, azure-skied days, with dove-gray rain days, with his twilight-walk-on-the-beach idea of romance.2015, Tara Ison, Ball: Stories. From the entry unmuggy
  • I stared at him , still undecided but very enticed.2014, Tristan Wood, The Wanton Life of My Friend Dave. From the entry enticed
  • Mahmood of disguising himself as an Arab businessman and trying to entice him to make anti-Semitic comments over lunch.2014 November 19, Katrin Bennhold, “A Tabloid ‘Fake Sheikh,’ Bane of Crooks and Royalty, Finds He’s Now the Story”, in New York Times…. From the entry blow someone's cover
  • I remember the tales of children enticed to the floor of the sea by mermaids and fishboys in search of playmates.2014, Eleanor Swanson, “Exiles and Expatriates”, in Exiles and Expatriates: Stories, Hollywood, Calif.: Hollywood Books International…. From the entry fishboy
  • Or, more likely, the horse belonged to a traveling photographer who knew how to entice parents to part with some cash.2010, Peg Meier, Wishing for a Snow Day: Growing Up in Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry cowkid
  • At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies. From the entry doom
  • Like that well-meaning mom, parents employ Milquetoast speech whenever they whine, complain, plead, entreat, entice, bribe, and explain themselves persuasively.2007, John Rosemond, “Command, Compel, Confirm”, in Mary McNeil, editor, Parenting by the Book: Biblical Wisdom for Raising Your Child…. From the entry milquetoast
  • I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.2004 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian. From the entry kudu
  • There are also many smaller intervening play and rest areas to entice the parkward-bound into pausing there instead.1971, Alexander Klein, Empire City: A Treasury of New York. From the entry parkward
  • Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent.1965, Janice Woodley, Not in this Way. From the entry quickshaw
  • In identifying the weak spot in Fanny – her longing for Mother and home – Edmund entices her to speak: he is practising anacrisis.2013, Ulf Olsson, Silence and Subject in Modern Literature. From the entry anacrisis
  • Not only because she was buying clothes to entice a creepazoid criminal to sleep with her, but because she was still so furious with Jared.2011, Christy Reece, Sweet Reward, Ballantine Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry creepazoid
  • We take one Egg Sardou, pair it with one Egg Benedict, and entice our guests with a dynamic breakfast duo — Eggs Brennan.2001, Carl Walker, Brennan’s of Houston in Your Kitchen, Albany, Tex.; New York, N.Y.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry egg benedict
  • Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88. From the entry expensively
  • And maybe Hazira was always going to be a gooey marshland, but that doesn't mean you entice the nation's poorest and most dismissed groups to live there.2023, Rob Verchick, “Climate and Castle”, in The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, New York, N.Y.; Chichester…. From the entry gooey
  • He quit the role after You Only Live Twice, frustrated by the repetitive plots, but was enticed back after his successor George Lazenby failed to make the grade.2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The…. From the entry make the grade
  • From kuzumochi, to dango, to Western-style dorayaki, all sorts of attractive shops enticed the girls who had just learned of the subtle yet delicious taste of Japanese confectionaries.2020, Makishima Suzuki, translated by Hiroya Watanabe, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, volume 6, J-Novel Club, published 2021, →ISBN. From the entry kuzumochi
  • It is a world to see how commonly we are blinded with the collusions of women, and more enticed by their ornaments being artificial than their proportion being natural.2009, John C. Hunter, Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 470. From the entry enticed
  • A small container from a bakery brimmed with honey cakes or jelly ponchiks or cream puffs or a pastry that enticed his sweet tooth or whatever was the day special.2021, Wolodymyr Mohuchy, “Parenthood”, in Cyborg, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry ponchik

Meaning of entice

  1. verb To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

Full definition of entice

Questions about entice in a sentence

How do you use entice in a sentence?
Entice is used as a verb. For example: “I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.”
What is a short sentence with entice?
“I stared at him , still undecided but very enticed.”
What does entice mean?
Entice means to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

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