Sentence examples similar to function as a lure from inspiring English sources
They can function as a trap crop, luring insect pests away from the main crop.
Finally, the cops decide to use Jeannie as a lure.
It was clear that at the high end of things – the shows that could make New York critics dizzy with pleasure, and thus function as lures for a wealthy-New-Yorker-magazine-type demographic to get cable – people were getting lost.
Life magazine described the product as "a lure fish can't pass up".
But "Orange" uses that premise as a lure to get us to listen to other voices.
"He or she knows it's there only as a lure.
She feels the immanence of decline, and she uses her wounds as a lure.
Distractors in a multiple-choice question act as a lure to distract the test takers from finding the correct answer.
Lineatin can act as a lure for mass trapping of the ambrosia beetle; therefore, AMVL is being studied as a possible precursor for a pest control reagent.
Similar efforts by Shenzhen to develop Qianhai as a lure for the Hong Kong financial industry and its highly paid workforce have so far been rebuffed.
Cucurbitacin is also used as a lure in insect traps.
