beckoned
Example Sentences
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Beckoned by a sister-in-law she didn’t even know she had, Monica, who left as a teenager, is reintroduced to her mother simply as a new caregiver.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023
Beckoned by ads on the radio and in newspapers and on Craigslist, in the fall of 2011 women across America began applying to be among the 420 subjects in the Lybrido and Lybridos studies.
From New York Times • May 22, 2013
Beckoned by foreign countries with mild climates and a lower cost of living, many retirees view living abroad as the fulfillment of a life-long dream.
From Time • Jul. 25, 2012
Beckoned by Yoda in to the cave of evil, Starkiller experiences a vision of other cloned selves crawling at him from the tree roots.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2010
Behind me was ——A thick and matted forest, sunk between hills All desolate and bare, whose dark and awful silence Beckoned me.
