tempting

Example Sentences

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It’s also a slippery slope: once you get used to having a little more cash in your bank account, it can be tempting to lower the percentage even further.

From MarketWatch • May 30, 2026

That makes bonds a lot more tempting than they were before the war began in February, and the 10-year yield was below 4%.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

That can create tempting opportunities for people with nonpublic knowledge to make profitable bets at the expense of less-informed traders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

To forget the bitterest chapters of our personal histories can be overwhelmingly tempting when there’s so much to deal with, right in front of us.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

So catastrophic and irrevocable were the changes that it is tempting to think that almost nothing survived from the past.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann