Lured Sentence Examples

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  • She was sure that was why Alex had lured Josh into the house.

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  • The ease, too, with which he outshone men of vastly greater learning lured him from the task of intense and arduous study.

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  • And farther still, beyond those forests and fields, the bright, oscillating, limitless distance lured one to itself.

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  • He maintained his ascendancy until about 515, when Oroetes, the Persian governor of Lydia, who had been reproached for his failure to reduce Samos by force, lured him to the mainland by false promises of gain and put him to death by crucifixion.

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  • Occasionally a kind of frenzy even would seem to seize on them, and lured by.

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  • He is a wild man who lives with the animals of the field until lured away from his surroundings by the charms of a woman.

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  • By the time Lana caught up, he'd had been lured into one of the buildings by a little girl with a handful of uncooked rice.

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  • Although DVD Sales and rentals (as well as illegal downloading) have hurt the movie industry a bit, we keep coming back for more - lured by the promise of new movies.

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  • In 1659 he lured Afzul Khan, the Bijapur general, into a personal conference, and killed him with his own hand, while his men attacked and routed the Bijapur army.

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  • The Picts used a bit of tactical guile and lured the Northumbrians into a trap with deadly results.

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  • Why has Sarah, the elegant New Yorker, lured him to a secret rendezvous?

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  • One legend tells how he lured a Revenue cutter to its doom in a dangerous cove of which he alone knew the soundings.

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  • It was director Martin Scorsese who lured him back to do Gangs of New York but after finishing There Will Be Blood, he has no major projects in the works.

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  • These common garden pests can be lured away from strawberries with a variety of organic traps, including a little beer poured into a pan to entice slugs away from fruit and into the pan where they drown.

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  • Squall, the classic shy and aloof hero, is slowly lured out of his shell by Rinoa.

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  • The news is full of stories of teens who were lured to meet an online "friend" who was actually a sexual predator.

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  • A tailor in Paris, he lured children into his shop and then killed them.

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  • Women are lured by rapists with promise of being in a commercial.

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  • Don't be lured in by package deals for entire rooms of furniture if that's not what you need.

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  • As you navigate through SnoopStation, you need to be careful which selections you choose so you are not lured away from the free services and into paying for a premium service.

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  • By writing a list, you are less apt to be lured in by deals and sales on items you don't really need.

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  • College students, too, need to beware of various scams, like being lured into survey companies who promise fast cash without a lot of work or for a sign-up fee.

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  • Couples featured on the cover of Soap Opera Digest lured new viewers into watching.

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  • However, an apprenticeship can border on exploitation, if you are lured into the wrong shop.

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  • The feature tells the story of a pirate ship lured towards its doom by the sexy (and singing) sirens of the deep.

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  • Avoid being lured in to fraudulent or unsatisfactory travel arrangements.

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  • Whether you've been lured into the latest version of Hairspray by hot, young stars like Zac Efron or you're a long-time fan of the show, there's no better time to find Hairspray MP3s.

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  • They were lured to the site of the show under the pretense that they were to appear in a "Mr.

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  • Dreamy and precise, the music and sound of Serenity provide the film with exquisite accents, drawing the audience into the experience as the sirens of mythology lured sailors into the depths with their songs.

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  • The strange calm she felt around Zamon remained, and she recalled more clearly Darkyn's words about how the original Dark One lured in his prey.

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  • The Deidres were lured into the shadow world and ambushed by death dealers.

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  • She was a plant by the Dark One who lured you and probably the rest of your brothers into bed.

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  • When we arrived, Memon lured us to his kingdom and killed everyone but me.

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  • Gian Paolo Baglioni was lured to Rome in 1520 and beheaded by Leo X.; and in 1534 Rodolfo, who had slain a papal legate, was defeated by Pier Luigi Farnese, and the city, captured and plundered by his soldiery, was deprived of its privileges.

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  • They held that the body is mortal, and its substance transitory; that the soul is immortal, but, coming from the subtlest ether, is lured as by a sorcery of nature into the prison-house of the body.

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  • She started to walk away, but his adverse response lured her to pause.

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  • Wide shoulders, chiseled chest, rippling abs … even his scent—of pure man mixed with the mystery of night—lured her like an animal falling for a hunter's bait.

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  • Claire lured him away from his Guardians to the warm springs by the—" "Enough!"

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  • She'd been a siren, a human whose black heart lured any immortal she encountered into the hands of the Dark One!

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  • The local populace—some dressed in the Western uniforms she'd seen in her history classes—was making its way towards the compound, lured by the rumors of the government compound and food, water, and medicines.

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  • Katie's throat tightened, and the knife slipped.  She drew a shaky breath and glanced around for Andre again.  The damned phantom had lured her away from Gabriel and left her to her fate.  She was a fool.

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  • Plague infected fleas lured from mice were used to produce a bacterium that was injected in to prisoners.

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  • We have become customers of the Phone Co-op, lured by a heady mixture of low prices and human contact.

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  • In a few sinister incidents, you might be lured to a dangerous appointment by someone with a highly predatory agenda.

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  • Trains, automobiles, airplanes ­ dreams of mobility came true and lured people into becoming frenetic proponents of progress.

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  • I was lured from my already well satiated state to sample the treacle pudding and custard.

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  • Instead of offering the weary traveler promised safety, it lured him to his death.

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  • I was almost lured into the tourist trinket shops.

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  • Entrance was by a sixpenny refreshment ticket and the star was Sam Cowell, who had been lured from Evans ' Supper Rooms.

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  • The Sirens were creatures in Greek Mythology who lured seafaring men to their deaths with their songs (and their sexiness).

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  • The fish has to be lured into trusting Scorpio enough to give up his innermost secrets.

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  • The young Skywalker Jedi is then lured to Bespin by Darth Vader who hopes he can coax the younger Skywalker into joining the darkside.

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  • Yet, when the smell of bacon lured him to the kitchen, she found herself wishing he would address the subject.

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  • The career of Napoleon, which had lured France far away from the principles of 1789, now brought her back to that starting-point; just as, in the physical sphere, his campaigns from1796-1814had at first enormously swollen her bulk and then subjected her to a shrinkage still more portentous.

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  • They are nymphs of the sea, who, like the Lorelei of German legend, lured mariners to destruction by their sweet song.

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  • The opinion that the whole plot was the work of Salisbury, that he acted as an agent provocateur and lured on his victims to destruction, repeated by some contemporary and later writers and recently formulated and urged with great ability, has no solid foundation.

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  • One is lured by women, another by honors, a third by ambition or money, and they go over to that camp.

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  • She wanted to go down on her own terms, not lured into a false sense of safety before he chopped off her head.

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  • It might have proved even more dangerous than the rebellion of 1403, if Henrys unscrupulous general Ralph, earl of Westmorland, had not lured Scrope and Mowbray to a conference, and then arrested them under circumstances of the vilest treachery.

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  • Claire lured him away from his Guardians to the warm springs by the—" "Enough!"

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