Definition: 1. The act of influencing by exciting hope or desire. 2. Something that seduces or has the quality to seduce. 3. The desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid.
Use 'temptation' in a sentence:
1. Have you ever been chatting to a friend and succumbed to the temptation, mid-conversation, of checking your mobile and apologetically interrupting the flow because you just can't resist replying to a text message?
2. However, the modern society is full of temptations.
3. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful.
4. Abstainer: a weak person who yield to the temptation of deny himself a pleasure.
5. Avoiding temptation is one effective strategy for maintaining self-control.
6. In the history of the U. S. grain market, grain elevators several times fell prey to this temptation, spurred by a lack of clarity in bailment law.
7. The temptation was too strong.
8. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette.
9. Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.
10. It is a good rule because it is hard for school kids to resist the temptation of mobile phones.
11. The temptation to tell her everything was very strong.
12. The temptation was very strong.
13. He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.
14. I should congratulate you that you resisted the temptation.
15. If you struggle to resist temptation, surrounding yourself with people who possess a high degree of self-discipline can help.
16. Orthorexics spend vast amounts of their time planning their food, resisting temptation, applauding themselves when they stick to their diet.
17. I found the temptation to miss the class too hard to resist.
18. It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered of drivers to resist the temptation to revenge when subjected to uncivilized behavior.
19. Avoid temptation by throwing away all cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.
20. As often as not, jacelin thinks before he speaks but rarely resists the temptation to do so.
21. Regulators therefore need to help people manage complexity and resist temptation.
22. It proved an irresistible temptation to Bob to go back.
23. You will meet much evil in life; try not to yield to temptation.
24. Hardly any temptation could persuade the boy to stir abroad after nightfall.
25. The temptation to explore these new realms is too great.
26. The fellow could never resist the temptation to be melodramatic, walden thought.
27. Avoid the temptation to say, "poop smells bad because it's so stinky."
28. The other temptation is to use a new technology everywhere.
29. Large companies have a difficult time switching to new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses.
30. It takes a man of iron to resist some of the temptations that go with an important job like that.
31. He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
32. It proved an irresistible temptation to Hall to go back.
33. There is a temptation to reach out and help the eating process.
34. This will reduce the temptation to fudge on your boundaries.
35. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.
36. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
37. The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous.
38. For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with £ 400 in cash would be a source of temptation ．
39. It takes the most levelheaded and good-tempered of drivers to resist the temptation to retaliate when subjected to uncivilized behavior.
40. The problem is that later is also filled with temptations.
41. Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
42. The temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.
43. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
44. People can't resist the temptation to buy and update electronic products because they serve as a symbol of wealth and social status.
45. I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.
46. You should resist this temptation.
47. Students should resist the temptation to focus on exams alone.
48. Congress should resist the temptation to try quick economic fixes.
49. I couldn't resist the temptation to open the letter.
50. She has failed to resist the temptation.
51. Will they be able to resist the temptation to buy?
52. An expensive bicycle is a temptation to thieves.
53. The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen.
54. We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high-speed trend.
55. With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.
56. However, the temptation is always there to add canned laughter in the editing.
