Sentence examples for lured millions from inspiring English sources

Finally, the development in the early 1980's of the mountain bike, with its sturdy fat tires and its comfortable upright handlebars, lured millions of lapsed adult riders back to bicycling.

"Titanic" may have won the Oscar for visual effects, but it was the film's romance that lured millions of repeat viewers.

That arrangement has lured millions of new customers to AT&T and lifted the company's revenue in a recession.

Since the 1965 overhaul of immigration law, the United States has lured millions of highly educated, ambitious immigrants from places like Taiwan, South Korea and India.

By embedding this lesson in the story of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's, the book has lured millions of readers into the realm of the geek.

Economic incentives that have lured millions of Han Chinese to the country's western, southern and northern fringes have created socioeconomic rifts along ethnic lines.

Job opportunities during World War I and restrictions on foreign immigration after 1924 lured tens of thousands of African Americans from the South.

Instead, the Islamist government allowed in radical foreign preachers who lured thousands of vulnerable young people to join al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

It lured thousands of Muslim peasants to abandon their village homes and trudge over frozen high passes in a disastrous hijrah ("flight") from India to Afghanistan.

In contrast to older cities like New York, Chicago and Boston, cities like Houston, the report argued, have avoided prescriptive development standards to create an affordable environment that's lured hundreds of thousands of people over the last generation.

While not open to tourists, the Hôtel Lambert is a site of great cultural and historical significance in Paris — having been at different times in its history Voltaire's Paris residence and the location of a famous Polish political salon that eventually lured 19th-century artists and intellectuals like George Sand, Eugène Delacroix and the poet Adam Mickiewicz.