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Example sentences for "attracts"

Lexicographically close words:
attractions; attractive; attractively; attractiveness; attractor; attribuer; attributable; attribute; attributed; attributes
  1. For his property, however, they have no such high consideration, and they are not above the temptation of plundering him of any article that attracts their fancy.

  2. Amongst these, one dull-looking ark in black velvet attracts attention by its plainness.

  3. The first thing in a house which attracts my notice is the fire;--I conclude from that, if the hearts of the inhabitants are warm or cold.

  4. I was placed by her Ladyship next Miss Winter, whose person I cannot say prejudiced me in her favour, being entirely dispossessed of that winning grace which attracts strangers at a first glance.

  5. While on trial, one feature in her demeanor, already indicated on a previous occasion, strongly attracts notice.

  6. Certainly their mysterious shape attracts the eye, and gives a picturesque character to all the views of which they constitute a part.

  7. But it is as the author of a profound revolution in the Jewish religion, that Mendelssohn attracts our especial interest.

  8. But it is the sun in its conflict with the demons of the storm, the sun as a warrior and a hero, that chiefly attracts the religious reverence of the heroic age.

  9. The ceremony usually attracts a large congregation, and is one of the few institutions introduced by the Reformers that have strongly seized upon the popular heart.

  10. God even as the magnet attracts the iron.

  11. Verily, I have read the names of your beloved assembly which deserves to be mentioned with sanctity and which attracts the confirmation of the loving Lord and seeks to attain to the favors of God, the Mighty, the Compassionate!

  12. For firmness attracts the bounty of God and steadfastness is a magnet to receive His strength.

  13. This is the magnetic power which attracts the confirmation of God.

  14. If thou wishest for everlasting joy and happiness, engage thou in delivering (teaching) the Cause of God night and day, for the commemoration of God attracts confirmation and assistance like unto a magnet.

  15. Service is the magnet which attracts the heavenly strength.

  16. That face of thine which attracts the hearts is far more beautiful and better than this rose, for with that beauty is accompanied illumination.

  17. This is called the gravitation constant, and it evidently furnishes a measure of the specific intensity with which one particle of matter attracts another.

  18. But he soon sees that flesh attracts lead.

  19. The leisure of army life attracts three out of four officers, laziness, if you like.

  20. The Isle of Man also attracts online gambling sites and the film industry.

  21. Employment is strong and attracts labor from Brazil and Portugal.

  22. Another walled town on the Norfolk coast attracts the attention of all who love the relics of ancient times, Great Yarmouth, with its wonderful record of triumphant industry and its associations with many great events in history.

  23. The silence attracts his attention to those he is addressing.

  24. This glance is truly splendid; it fascinates you, attracts you, and, at the same time, fills you with terror.

  25. This first group, which very naturally attracts the spectator's attention, is that of the dead whom the piercing sound of the eternal trumpet has awakened in their tombs.

  26. The Captain Witse' is placed at the head of the table, and attracts our attention first.

  27. But no object, dead or living, attracts his notice!

  28. The poems from him are again very diverse in subject and mood; and the more we see of him the more his personality attracts us.

  29. John Nash's Over the Top, on the other hand, attracts attention because of its very bareness and simplicity.

  30. I must, besides, remind you that your proud spirit may deceive you when it suggests, that because your sadness or your ill-humour attracts no expressed notice or excites no efforts to remove it, it does not therefore affect those around you.

  31. The smell of putrid meat attracts the gravid carrion fly.

  32. But as all the critics have pointed out, the theory of compound reflex action leaves out of account that there are any number of stimuli pouring in on the carrion fly at the same time that the meat attracts her.

  33. A light attracts them and Hamilton, with the aid of a lantern and a butterfly-net, tried to catch some.

  34. What is it in Dickens that especially attracts you?

  35. The Tamils go out in boats just offshore, carrying lighted torches, the fire of which attracts the curiosity of the fishes, bringing them to the surface, when the boatmen shoot them with bows and short arrows.

  36. There is also a fine old bo-tree dominating the place, which attracts the usual devotional attention of all true believers, and concerning the antiquity of which there is the usual amount of credulity.

  37. Then, governed by the law that attracts a liquid to itself, and heaps the teaspoon with liquid, the water of the quiet lake piles upon this narrow wall, forming a ledge along its summit.

  38. I have endeavored to show you that matter is resting in or on a central sphere of energy, which attracts solid bodies towards its central plane.

  39. The Pardon is on the Sunday after July 26, and attracts vast crowds.

  40. He attracted to his path the curious adventures of life as unfailingly as meat attracts flies, and jam wasps.

  41. It is to the meat and jam of his life, so to speak, that he owes his experiences; his after-life was all pudding, which attracts nothing but greedy children.

  42. Then he rushes to the cemetery, where his daughter's tomb irresistibly attracts him; again he implores, begs, threatens.

  43. In some of these nature seems to be in a serene mood, like a good mother whose harmonious strength attracts man and shows him the need of reposing on her bosom.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.