temptress

Example Sentences

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Making good on her name, Eve is a temptress, but the forbidden knowledge she dangles is that female liberation is part of civil rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2022

He later directed her at the Met, where she sang the title role in a new staging of Bizet's Carmen, portraying the heroine as a "pouty teenager" rather than the sultry temptress of most productions.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022

Demetriou’s vacillation between annoyed den mother and over-the-top temptress provides a wonderful balance to Berry’s consistently melodramatic Lazlo, who takes bestial form by bellowing out, “baaaaAAAAT” even though this is obviously a highly unnecessary flourish..

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2019

Loveliness, in fiction, typically graces a pair of archetypes: the angel and the temptress.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling