Definition: 1. Dispose or incline or entice to. 2. Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion. 3. Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting. 4. Induce into action by using one's charm. 5. Try to seduce.
Use 'tempt' in a sentence:
1. Don't tempt the Universe that way.
2. Actually, the closer you grow to God, the more Satan will try to tempt you.
3. He was tempted to spill out his problems to Philip.
4. People can't stop smoking with cigarettes still around to tempt them.
5. It is tempting to idealize the past.
6. I shouldn't have let you tempt me into talking of the old days.
7. I was never tempted for a moment to give her away.
8. Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
9. Credit cards can tempt you to overstretch yourself.
10. Some people may be tempted to give untruthful answers.
11. I was tempted to snap back angrily at him.
12. Don't let credit tempt you to buy something you can't afford.
13. Statements like that may tempt Yankee funds to saddle up and head south.
14. Vivien refuses to put down bait to tempt wildlife to the waterhole.
15. Having spent so long at a great club like Rangers, no other Scottish team could tempt him away.
16. They tempt you to spend more than you otherwise might have.
17. It was a meal to tempt even the most jaded palate.
18. Over and over again, a bright sunbeam would tempt the busy child outside.
19. Can I tempt you with a little puff pastry?
20. Nothing would tempt me to live here.
21. It is useless for you to tempt me!
22. That must tempt them to say yes to ideas of dubious originality.
23. The Tories plan to tempt couples down the aisle with a tax break.
24. I will tempt him now with good, and it may be that he will come with me.
25. Would it tempt us to buy another cup of joe?
26. At first glance, it would be tempting to agree.
27. You tempt Him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.
28. That cake looks very tempting.
29. As soon as you start to talk about never having played on a losing side, it is tempting fate.
30. She'd never even felt tempted to return.
31. I was tempted to pass the buck.
32. Nothing could tempt her to evil.
33. Cars like that may tempt drivers to speed.
34. It is the fresh fruit that tempts me at this time of year.
35. Children may be tempted to climb into the front seat while the car is in motion.
36. We dare not tempt them with weakness.
37. Stay away from the things that tempt you.
38. Don't tempt and waste the time of those foreign sour grapes.
39. So that might tempt you into saying the mind on the physicalist view is just a brain.
40. It's tempting to speculate about what might have happened.
41. Do you hate to tempt fate?
42. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
43. In the end, I turned down Raoul's tempting offer of the Palm Beach trip.
44. Students may be tempted to cheat in order to get into top schools.
45. If there were a breakdown of law and order, the army might be tempted to intervene.
46. I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't.
47. I'm very tempted to sell my house.
48. Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
49. The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.
50. Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit.
51. How can we tempt young people into engineering?
