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Example sentences for "luring"

Lexicographically close words:
lure; lured; lures; lurid; luridly; lurk; lurke; lurked; lurketh; lurkey
  1. He ran his hand through his hair helplessly, then heard very faintly the luring note of Corio's horn.

  2. The luring note that had drawn her, Cliff thought hazily; then he thought of nothing save the sound, the sound that promised him all he could desire.

  3. Street lamps did not flame as flowers of the East, trees did not tower like giants luring them with soft voices, water was still water.

  4. Besides, there is always satisfaction in luring fish to one's bait.

  5. Even the plover, convinced of their innocence, had ceased her wheeling, luring wail.

  6. If, in these cases, you take up a newspaper, or whatever other light reading may happen to be at hand, with the hope of luring the truants back, you will be disappointed.

  7. Out of the highway of Eastern trade or travel, whoever visits it must do so for itself alone, for the arts of amusing idlers and luring travellers are unknown to it.

  8. I saw on the one hand Scylla luring us on to confidence in works, which I believe to be the worst plague of religion.

  9. Breed moved down the south slope of the hills at last, the sage scent luring the coyote in him, but moved slowly and with many halts occasioned by the wolf suspicion which urged him to turn back.

  10. The coyotes clustered round the steer that Breed pulled down a few hours after luring Shady from the cabin and she viewed them suspiciously, warning them off by repeated growls.

  11. He exhaled smoke and raised his tired eyes to the still luring Spanish girl.

  12. She again became coquettish, luring with her wiles one who remained sunk in ennui.

  13. Early in the piece, indeed, he had begun to suspect in the luring of his little sister a grotesque parallel to the bold advances made him by the New York society girl.

  14. Together they heard the hunting call and went seeking the gold that was luring thousands across the deserts; together they dug for it, found it, shared it when all was done.

  15. For that purpose alone they were cunningly luring him closer and closer, that they need not carry the meat far when they had slaughtered him.

  16. With the idea of luring him away from it, I led the conversation to the subject of champagne.

  17. And, reader, as I write these lines down in the slums of Chicago, I see opposite me the saloon open day and night luring men and women inside, fitting them also for the prison and perhaps for the scaffold!

  18. It is easy enough to be prudent When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within no voice of sin Is luring your soul away.

  19. Don't tell me she was luring him from his home here?

  20. Too well has he succeeded In luring you away from that good path On which you had been journeying forty years!

  21. A typical night's session of luring the sandman goes something like this: "Let's see .

  22. I'd show him what I meant by luring them right in.

  23. His son was growing to manhood; and for years Spain had been luring James to a closer friendship by hints of the Prince's marriage with an Infanta.

  24. The elucidation of this remarkable occurrence is long deferred, for Mrs. Radcliffe appreciates fully the value of suspense in luring on her readers, but our attention is distracted in the meantime by a series of new events.

  25. She went in ahead of him and turned the frame so that the face in the picture smiled down upon them in all of its luring loveliness.

  26. Hundreds of thousands of copies of my letters from the north, filled to the brim with the enthusiasm I had felt for my work and projects, had been sent out broadcast, luring buyers of stock.

  27. And with that passionate denial, Laurel Vane's little feet turned aside into that luring path of sin whose roses hide so many cruel thorns.

  28. But in regard to his experience, he could tell himself that a woman more guileless of luring never drew breath.

  29. Though the way lead through dismal gloom, the luring voice of happiness continues to go before us.

  30. And his eyes glowed with a gloomy fire as he murmured, watching her: "Who knows whether I am not harboring the Lorelei herself, who is luring me into her kingdom to destroy me!

  31. But I know my father, and am aware that he was only luring me into a trap.

  32. No, no more luring of innocent maidens from their happy homes!

  33. In addition to these defences, which stretched for nearly four miles in length, was the difficulty of the channel, always hazardous from its shoals, and now beaconed with false buoys for the purpose of luring the British ships to destruction.

  34. His big difficulty would lie in luring the detective to Wimbledon.


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