lure
Example Sentences
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On Chinese social media, individual investors who lost money complained they had been lured in at the top, then “chopped up like chives.”
Last year, lawmakers boosted the annual amount allocated to the state’s film and TV tax credit program and expanded the criteria for eligible projects in an attempt to lure production back to California.
From Los Angeles Times
Apple TV+ still is not a widely adopted service even among devoted viewers, despite the cavalcade of A-listers it has lured into its tent.
From Salon
By clearing invasive trees and replanting native grasslands, he replenished the land’s topsoil and resurrected a dozen natural springs—which, in turn, lured back birds, insects and other wildlife.
“They are looking for people who are just out of the foster system, they’re luring people using the tools of the internet and social media.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
