enticement

Example Sentences

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He was planning to go home when he was approached by a Russian man with an alluring offer: work as a restaurant cook for the equivalent of $5,200 a month—a staggering enticement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Oates leads us through Fox’s lurid world, drawing deliberately uncomfortable parallels between his calculated actions and the work of novelists and teachers, each of whom must also use enticement and enchantment to reach their mark.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Instead, the enticement of this sort of think piece delights not in the brutality of violence but in the intricacy of the artful con.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

A bonus enticement is not nearly enough to do that.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Further enticement was provided by a beautiful psychology grad student named Julia Mae Green, who after graduation would be returning to her native Virginia.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly