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Example sentences for "enticement"

Lexicographically close words:
enthusiastick; enthusiasts; entia; entice; enticed; enticements; entices; enticeth; enticing; entiende
  1. Harder than ever is the struggle to rescue the victims of worldly fashion, enticement and folly: for the false word has gone forth that here and here only is the life of man and that renouncing the temporal is renouncing all.

  2. Where I have, by the enticement of my mother, Bargained and bought the birthright of my brother.

  3. The time were too long now to declare, How many and great the number are, Which have deceived be; And brought clean from God's law Unto thy yoke and awe, Through the enticement of me.

  4. The enticement was very great; temptation rushed upon him.

  5. The object of this testimony was, to lead to a conclusion of enticement or persuasion on my part, and so to bring the case within one of the judge's instructions already stated.

  6. There was only the enticement of the moment.

  7. No stringent laws were made against the enticement of slaves to run away until 1830 when the abolitionists first began to appear.

  8. The most interesting legal case based on this law was that of Delia Webster, a young lady from Vermont, who was tried in the Fayette Circuit Court in December, 1844, for the enticement of a Negro slave boy from Lexington.

  9. In this state of effeminacy the fibres of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable power.

  10. Their glittering smile, their enticement and solicitation, their tempting eye-play were relaxed.

  11. Its face is like that of a large, heavily made-up and not unbeautiful woman, veil-less and with some dignity but only two expressions, enticement and indifference.

  12. For a moment she hesitated, and a sensation very much like fear took hold of her; but, recollecting that he was nothing more than her father's new diplomatic Secretary, she gave herself up to the enticement of the free and sparkling desert.

  13. She therefore put the two alternatives to her friends, and, though Kate was all for remaining where they were, her husband could not resist the aristocratic enticement of the Residency.

  14. Nor was the drift Londonward due altogether to the fascination which the gay and pleasure-pandering city possessed, for there were not wanting methods of enticement such as are still employed, in spite of legal penalties.

  15. In a carved miserere in Ludlow Church, representing Doomsday, one of these characters is depicted as about to be cast into the jaws of hell, carrying with her nothing but the finery of her enticement and her short ale measure.

  16. While they were there, with their enticement and their memories, prayer would never come.

  17. Those whose hearts are pure do not act up to the enticement of the wicked.

  18. In such a way, then, those whose hearts are pure do not act up to the enticement of the wicked.

  19. The enticement of the appeal went to his head.

  20. He forgot everything but her sheathed loveliness, the enticement of this lovely creature whose smoldering eyes invited.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enticement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allurement; appeal; attraction; bait; blandishment; charm; decoy; draw; enchantment; enticement; fascination; flirtation; glamour; incentive; incitement; inducement; interest; invitation; lure; magnetism; motive; seduction; snare; stale; temptation; trap; witchery; wooing