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Example sentences for "blandishment"

Lexicographically close words:
blancos; blancs; bland; blanda; blandest; blandishments; blandly; blandness; blando; blank
  1. With gentle blandishment our men they meet, And wag their tails, and fawning lick their feet.

  2. Soon as she strikes her wand, and gives the word, Draw forth and brandish thy refulgent sword, And menace death: those menaces shall move Her alter'd mind to blandishment and love.

  3. He reigns at the head of a flock; and his language, whether expressive of blandishment or of command, is better heard and better understood than the voice of his master.

  4. XIV Most goodly glee and lovely blandishment She to me made, and bad me love her deare; For dearely sure her love was to me bent, 120 As when just time expired should appeare.

  5. Most goodly glee and louely blandishment 2 She to me made, and bad me loue her deare, For dearely sure her loue was to me bent, 4 As when iust time expired should appeare.

  6. Vernabelle continued full of blandishment for the two men and poured 'em out stiff hookers of this demon elderberry wine and lighted cigarettes for 'em from hers.

  7. He was as full of blandishment as ever, though, and not a one of his staunch old friends had dropped him on account of his unfortunate marriage.

  8. She had plenty of blandishment for Oswald, but not his kind.

  9. As the song proceeded the two nymphs, who had first appeared to Edwin, and since attended him with the extremest officiousness, endeavoured by every artful blandishment to engage his attention, and rivet his partiality.

  10. In a tone of blandishment he expostulated with her upon her unkind behaviour and unreasonable aversion.

  11. I have never in my experience seen such an example of the blandishment of wealth.

  12. When he saw the train of female captives, some of them possibly using their arts of blandishment not without success, he might well be afraid that the very end for which the war had been undertaken was to be frustrated.

  13. Not only are we to assail the grosser forms of sin and exterminate them, but we are with equal severity to strike down the fair-seeming vices that come with blandishment and insidious appeal.

  14. Where else, then, should I find such blandishment Of sight and sense that e'er My heart should know another amorousness?

  15. Wherefore seeing that blandishment availed nothing, he was minded to have recourse to wiles and stratagems, and in the last resort to force.

  16. Illustration: "A sort of frozen blandishment smoothed the proud face of the Vicar as he stood with his lady beside him, to receive the sycophants.

  17. A sort of frozen blandishment on these occasions smoothed his proud face as he stood, with his lady beside him, to receive them.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blandishment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adulation; allurement; appeal; attraction; blandishment; bunkum; caress; charm; compliment; enchantment; engagement; enlistment; enticement; exhortation; fascination; fawning; flattery; flirtation; glamour; grease; importunity; incense; inducement; interest; invitation; lobbying; magnetism; nagging; oil; palaver; persuasion; pestering; plaguing; praise; preaching; pressing; pressure; salesmanship; seduction; selling; soap; solicitation; sycophancy; teasing; temptation; urgency; wheedling; witchery