INVITING in a Sentence

Learn INVITING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
296 example sentences for INVITING, such as:
1. Perhaps we should invite them to dinner.
2. A smile is the most inviting of all gestures.
3. The February air was soft, cool, and inviting.
4. She tried to make amends by inviting him out to dinner.
5. I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INVITING
inviting
 a.  attractive and tempting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The surly Chief Clerk wavered for a while; then ended by inviting Chichikov to tea.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
2  "Of course not, since we are inviting him," Simonov decided.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
3  Anna Pavlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to listen to his tale.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
4  The count met the guests and saw them off, inviting them all to dinner.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
5  "In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack," said Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support to Miloradovich who was near him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
6  He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way of inviting the other to take a seat beside him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II
7  He was going to dine that evening at Speranski's, "with only a few friends," as the host had said when inviting him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
8  He was talking to the countess, and Natasha sat down beside a little chess table with Sonya, thereby inviting Prince Andrew to come too.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
9  On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVIII
10  He seemed to be unable to understand the meaning of all these events, and bowed his old head in a spiritual sense as if expecting and inviting further blows which would finish him.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
11  Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, immediately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  The commander in chief and his aides soon spread the tablecloth with an inviting array of eatables and drinkables, prettily decorated with green leaves.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
13  And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  Sallie Moffat renewed her friendship, was always running out for a dish of gossip at the little house, or inviting 'that poor dear' to come in and spend the day at the big house.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
15  Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  The February air was soft, cool, and inviting.
2  My wife is always inviting various waifs and strays from work to our house.
3  The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
4  She tried to make amends by inviting him out to dinner.
5  He taunted armed officers by pointing to his head, as if inviting them to shoot.
6  A smile is the most inviting of all gestures.
7  The Nigerian Football Association says it all began with a fake advertisement posted on a website, purporting to be from its Chairman, inviting foreign managers to apply to be the new national team coach.
8  The Football Association says it all began with a fake advertisement on a website, inviting foreign managers to be the new national team coach.
9  Representatives of the Insight Bowl have expressed strong interest in inviting Rutgers.
10  The home at 66 Bishop St. is nothing glamorous, it was advertised as a fixer, inviting developers and contractors to swoop in for an opportunity to renovate.
11  If you flatter your mother a bit she might invite us all to dinner.
12  I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
13  Perhaps we should invite them to dinner.
14  If a new leader emerged, it would then be for the Queen to invite him to form a government.
15  If you can't make it Friday, we can invite somebody else.