TEMPTATION in a Sentence
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86 example sentences for TEMPTATION, such as:
1. He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
2. He overcame a strong temptation to run away.
3. Don't give in to the temptation to argue back.
4. It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
5. Resist the temptation to buy the item until you're certain you need it.
2. He overcame a strong temptation to run away.
3. Don't give in to the temptation to argue back.
4. It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
5. Resist the temptation to buy the item until you're certain you need it.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TEMPTATION
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temptation
n. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire
n. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.
2 No one was in sight, the smooth road sloped invitingly before her, and finding the temptation irresistible, Jo darted away, soon leaving hat and comb behind her and scattering hairpins as she ran.
3 It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in.
4 Somewhat daunted, Jo righted herself, spread her handkerchief over the devoted ribbons, and putting temptation behind her, hurried on, with increasing dampness about the ankles, and much clashing of umbrellas overhead.
5 I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers.
6 Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak.
7 It was exactly a scene, and exactly among people, where he had apparently least to do, and least temptation to go.
8 Under such circumstances, however, he was not likely to be proof against the temptation of immediate relief.
9 She obeyed his directions very punctually: perhaps she had no temptation to transgress.
10 But the temptation to read the letters was too great and she put the thought of Ellen out of her mind.
11 And when you've ridden about the woods exposing yourself to attack, you've exposed every well-behaved woman in town to attack by putting temptation in the ways of darkies and mean white trash.
12 Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality.
13 As a dark river sweeps by under a lightning flash, she saw her chance of happiness surge past under a flash of temptation.
14 Their eyes met, and for a second she trembled again with the nearness of the temptation.
15 It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
Example Sentence:
1 Don't give in to the temptation to argue back.
2 The bag of sweets on the table was too strong a temptation for the child to resist.
3 He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
4 His inability to resist temptation would eventually cost him his freedom.
5 Resist the temptation to buy the item until you're certain you need it.
6 There is always a temptation to weight the report in favour of the option you want.
7 He overcame a strong temptation to run away.
8 There might be a temptation to cheat if students sit too close together.
9 He took himself out of temptation by driving the other boys together and joining them.
10 The disadvantage of the epigram is the temptation it affords to good people to explain it to the others who are assumed to be too obtuse to comprehend it alone.
11 The temptation of easy money did seduce her to work in a massage parlor.
12 Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the temptations and victories of man's soul.