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Example sentences for "temptingly"

Lexicographically close words:
tempted; tempter; tempters; tempteth; tempting; temptress; tempts; tempus; tems; ten
  1. The fire burned brightly upon the clean swept hearth, shedding a cheerful glow over the room, while warming by its blaze stood a large dish of red and golden apples, temptingly arranged.

  2. O, it was a delicious blending of autumn's garnered store, showered upon the lap of Mother Nature, spread out temptingly to the eyes of her weary children.

  3. The trees were robed in their deepest green, while the early ripe fruit hung temptingly upon their branches, or lay scattered upon the ground beneath.

  4. When one hears so much of the nation that can whip the earth, it is, to say the least of it, surprising to find her so temptingly spankable.

  5. They met--the court in its shirt-sleeves--and against the raw square of the Court House window a temptingly suggestive branch of a tree fretted the sky.

  6. She shook out its flounces temptingly as she said it.

  7. They were spread temptingly upon a shelf.

  8. He glanced into the yellow windows of candy-stores, and saw the parti-colored sweetmeats temptingly spread out.

  9. It was for a young man that this solemn anthem was being sung--for a man who had died in his twenty-fifth year, at the moment of his first success, and when life opened temptingly before him.

  10. And in introducing this quotation from Schiller she regarded him so temptingly aside that he again lifted up his long legs and shuffled them, feeling like starting off at once.

  11. The nurse gave a gasp and backed away from the notes, which Cyril held temptingly toward her.

  12. He did not know that he averted his eyes for fear that the primitive male within him would break loose from the fetters of his will and forcibly seize the small creature so temptingly within his reach.

  13. When my father deserted salt water for the land permanently, he did not fix on one of the charming nooks embosomed in sea-woods which lay so temptingly between Hyde Park and the South Head road.

  14. Glenrock was, I believe, offered to him at a temptingly low rate, but he preferred to buy a tract of wild land at Newtown, as the suburban hamlet was then called, there to build and improve.

  15. The tea was good; the cakes and ices were good; on pleasant days the view was remarkably fine, and the pretty things in the gift shop were temptingly displayed.

  16. The advertisements, temptingly worded, appeared in the county weeklies, and circulars were sent through the mails.

  17. Berries and some larger fruits hung temptingly on the trees out of reach above their heads.

  18. The door of a public-house stood temptingly open.

  19. Slackening the line, he suddenly produced from his pocket a few grains of wheat, and spread them temptingly before Jonah.

  20. All the more reason you should eat plenty now," said their constructor, holding the doughnuts temptingly beneath his nose.

  21. When the mother animal brought her young a choice morsel of food she would hold it up temptingly before its mouth and the quick forward movement of the head, with mouth open, showed the young animal’s desire and acceptance of the offer.

  22. Feodor, laying his rash little fingers on the silver medal and the golden coin so temptingly near him on the table.

  23. He bent his great, watery eyes over towards me, and opened the ball by suggesting that I ask a blessing over the food so bountifully and temptingly laid before us.

  24. Failing, in one case out of three, to surfeit the child with one pound, I purchased six pounds in a box, and taking off the cover, I placed the whole temptingly before her.

  25. Game and various other delicacies were there, most temptingly served.

  26. The opening in the rear looked temptingly inviting in comparison to the wooded grounds in front, from whence came the volley of bullets.

  27. Her teeth gleamed very white, and her breast swelled each year more temptingly over the edge other red blanket.

  28. His first impulse was to fly--all the savage in him prompting towards an escape into the bush, which lay temptingly near.

  29. The little inn looked temptingly rustic and primitive, and the smiling, round-faced, rosy-cheeked landlady might have just walked out of a picture.

  30. Here we might almost alight and pluck the wild flowers growing so temptingly on the embankment.

  31. He was evidently just ready for his bath, for he was wrapped in a blanket, and one pink foot stuck temptingly out from its folds.

  32. Temptingly the vision rose before him, how he would not spare the oil-jug, and would pitilessly cut to pieces some of the biggest onions; when a cloud of dust rose on the opposite shore and the forms of horses and riders became visible.

  33. A daring fancy to try the experiment took possession of the boy as he sat on the topmost rail with the glossy back temptingly near him.

  34. Now let's see who will come next," said Emil, setting the door temptingly ajar.


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