fatal attraction
Example Sentences
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It probably wasn’t smart, but it was like a fatal attraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, as the formerly mousy secret agent Eve and the childlike, psychopathic assassin Villanelle, played out a second season of fatal attraction and extreme codependence.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2019
Wild cherry, the leaves of which are highly poisonous, has had a fatal attraction for cattle once its foliage has been sprayed with 2,4-D.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Scientists are not sure how exactly the parasite elicits this fatal attraction, but one clue surfaced in 2014 in Vyas's laboratory.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 26, 2015
Wild cherry, the leaves of which are highly poisonous, has exerted a fatal attraction for cattle once its foliage has been sprayed with 2,4-D.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
