Sentence examples for by a less alluring from inspiring English sources

These days, Mr. Tsiamis's attention is consumed by a less alluring body of water: the Gowanus Canal, which this month was designated a Superfund site.

If you pass by the wieners, daily specials are tempting – Bath chaps, Ligurian fish stew – but I went on a Monday and it was a less alluring chicken curry.

Lochmueller is a less alluring cousin of Walter Berglund, the hero of "Freedom," Franzen's masterly 2010 novel.

But a review by the United States Department of Education last year would suggest a much less alluring come-on: Undistinguished math curricula.

But down on the ground, the environmental problems of a quickly erected city built on sand look a lot less alluring.

The movie drifts toward him, as if coaxed by his charm, and also toward Stéphane Stankowiak (Guillaume Gouix), an altogether less alluring soul.

Workouts that are paid for by the visit are less alluring because the consumer must be further motivated to pony up $10 each time.

It's presumably why the prospect of a fat paycheck is less alluring than the promise of a complex role, however small.

"Softly as I Leave You," by Lightfoot León (the choreographic team of Paul Lightfoot and Sol León), takes a dark look at the end of a relationship and is even less alluring.

And at about $48,000 so equipped, it is something of a performance bargain, with pricing on par with far less alluring models, like a generously spec'd Hyundai Genesis V6.

Yet the more effort expended dim lights, deep booths, a Web site featuring splayed chicken legs the less alluring the whole thing becomes.