Sentence examples for tempting sight from inspiring English sources

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For a century, it housed a grim penitentiary, where inmates passed their sentences along the banks of the East River, within tempting sight of freedom on the nearby shores.

This is the trip on which Jim visits a town big enough to have a courthouse, a place that affords a tempting sight.

Islanders center Tim Connolly had the puck on his stick with the tempting sight of an open goal straight ahead, and Buffalo goaltender Martin Biron was flailing across the crease like George Jetson on a treadmill.

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But however hot the afternoon, however tempting the sight of the cool, flowing water, do not even think of getting wet, as touching the water is forbidden at nearly every fountain in the city.

At department stores, whether in New York City or South Texas, Godiva shelves sit within sight, tempting the passersby.

If you're an EE customer, it's tempting to loathe the very sight of Kevin Bacon and imagine him as the human manifestation of every bad experience you've had with the mobile network.

At first sight it's tempting to compare it to the earthworks and barrows of neolithic Europe, and in fact there are burial mounds in Ohio that are as old as Stonehenge.

At first sight, it is tempting to suppose that comparing these two tasks (object recognition and structural learning) is misleading as they vary on many dimensions, most obviously that the recognition task can be described as "single trial," whereas the structural discrimination relied on multiple learning trials.

Thus, while it may be tempting to just give up at the sight of a patent, becoming better educated about the patent can result in a positive situation both for the entrepreneur and the patent holder.

Though it's tempting to gorge on anything edible in sight once the sun sets, Levine urged me to resist and explained that I'd be better off if I slowed down the fast-breaking food consumption.

Whether you are filling it with pencils, grippers, candy, hair bows, coins, jewelry or plastic goodies, the sight of the overflowing box should be tempting enough to lure people to it, just like Pandora was to open her box.

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