entice

Example Sentences

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The automaker hopes new technology will entice customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Historians say the street name was part of Workman’s overall effort to entice residents from the Midwest and East Coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The Colleen Hoover-verse is designed to entice the reader or viewer looking for something that feels good and is easily digestible, without necessarily being unique.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Authorities have held back from mass issuing stimulus checks and have tried instead to entice shoppers with subsidies and coupons limited to certain types of purchases.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

He liked to entice me into lies: “Gorgeous necktie,” he’d say, “that’s a Hermès, isn’t it?”—and then, when I assented, reach quickly across the lunch table and expose my poor tie’s humble lineage.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt