Sentence examples for she tempts from inspiring English sources
In one of the film's several nude scenes, she tempts Otto into bed by coquettishly dabbing meringue on her nipples.
She tempts them with apple tarts, meringues, chocolate mousse, Black Forest cake, rice pudding, creamy Swiss rolls and mountains of profiteroles.
She tempts him by reading aloud the story of an unlucky dog named Buster who lost his favorite bone — and thus begins Rocket's growing desire to read for himself.
In The Magician's Nephew, Digory frees her from the dying world of Charn and she follows him into Narnia, where she tempts him to eat the Apple of Life in Aslan's newly created garden (you begin to see Tolkien's point).
So Cook writes: "She tempts us by permitting a small advance and a long look ahead, but when we have resolved to force on into the white blank, the icy gates close as if to say, 'You can look, but you must not enter...'.
Despite the witch's corruption of Lucy's brother, Edmund (whom she tempts into her service with a box of delectable Turkish Delight), the four children eventually succeed in overthrowing her evil reign with the help of the lion Aslan, who has to die and be reborn before the final battle with the witch can be won.
Wasn't she tempted to have a holiday?
Wasn't she tempted to channel the anger of Marina Warner or fellow academic Thomas Docherty?
So was she tempted to buy a velvet dress and just go touring around historical fairs?
And was she tempted by the fact that she got to sing? "Well, yes, actually, that was totally it".
