How to Use seductive in a Sentence

seductive

adjective
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  • People always remarked on the cult leader's seductive personality.
  • For the Fab Four, the world was their dizzy, seductive oyster.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The amber adds a level of warmth that brings out the carnal, seductive side of the scent.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
  • With or without the flames, the smell of saffron, warm and seductive will fill your home.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • This is helped by the sheer force that is Ford Wright, a wall of man who turns a tool belt into a seductive gift.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The images are seductive, but that's not the point, Smerling said.
    — Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Her makeup, too, is toned down -- a nude lip instead of the seductive red.
    — Marianna Cerini, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • It's got the glitz, the gorgeous people and the gleefully seductive looks.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • In some ways the movie is like when the lights come on at the end of the night in a club and what once felt seductive is in an instant revealed to be seedy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • And what better way to lift a mood this season than with warm, moody, and seductive scents?
    — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
  • If seductive mystery is more your thing, head back to the Four Seasons Madrid for a night at Isa.
    — Danielle Pointdujour, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But this is a very positive thing, too, and part of what makes Athens so seductive.
    — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Also seductive are the views from the emerald chapel and terrace on the second floor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, there are no edges at all, but rather, smooth flowing curves as seductive as those of any car from the early 1960s.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 May 2022
  • As a showcase for him and for Lovibond, Minx couldn’t be more seductive.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Sam Heughan has been known to show off a seductive side as Jamie Fraser on Outlander.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Frankel said that both Ponzi and Madoff had the kind of seductive charm that Giordano, the actor, referred to.
    — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Stories about the glitz and glamour of 1950s Idlewild are seductive, even to academics.
    — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 10 June 2021
  • With vivid lyrics, seductive strings, and dark, brooding guitar twangs, each song sounds like a scene from a movie.
    — Alex Gonzalez, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But Andrew McMahon knew how to bring in the keys to accent the song’s seductive nature.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • For better or worse, there’s something very seductive about the show.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
  • It is said that the botos are so seductive that women wind up pregnant with their babies.
    — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The trick to playing Carlo Ponzi on stage—yes, that Carlo Ponzi, the famous scam artist—is to be heinous, but seductive.
    — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Even when the hooks are sweet or seductive, her work is still dissonant and provocative.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • For a young writer who knew jazz mostly from records, this was mighty seductive.
    — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Sep. 2020
  • To Greene, the story of the N.R.A. is just one more example of how seductive—and how destructive—the language of rights can be.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • Such a frame is seductive but misses the true danger of militia groups.
    — Harel Shapira, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Nobody needs to pack heat or chain-smoke to savor the darkly seductive allure of noir.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2023
  • Gatz is a thrill, functioning less as a straightforward adaptation and more as a paean to the seductive, time-bending act of reading.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Hilton received plenty of praise on social media for her seductive holiday look.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024

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