seduce

Example Sentences

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I also have questions for you about conscious or unconscious bias: What actual evidence do you have that this woman is trying to seduce your father?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

While Putin might not be willing to make concessions on Ukraine, Russia has tried to seduce the U.S. administration into lifting sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

“There’s a Jungian underbelly going on in the show that is trying to seduce you to maybe see beyond the politics of it all and into human experience,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

A man named Rufus is ordered to seduce and marry a wealthy woman at his sister’s expensive Hawaiian wedding in order to save his teetering family fortune.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024

It is possible, too, that Holmes simply offered the attorney cash for the information, or deployed his false warmth and teary regret to seduce the attorney into revealing the group’s mounting consensus.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson