How to Use seductive in a Sentence
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The seductive speech that gets the girl.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
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The copy was just as seductive.
—Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
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That’s what’s so seductive about them.
—Brittany Delay, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
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This is one of the most seductive dining rooms in town.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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To my ears the cluck of his call was even more seductive than the real thing.
—Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
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Look out for the seductive heat, which rounds things out and keeps you coming back for more.
—Joseph Hernandez, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
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This power is seductive and has found traction on the right as well as the left.
—Matt Shapiro, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
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The bargain may be seductive, but add miles to the equation and oh, boy!
—Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
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For a young writer who knew jazz mostly from records, this was mighty seductive.
—Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Sep. 2020
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Her makeup, too, is toned down -- a nude lip instead of the seductive red.
—Marianna Cerini, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
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With or without the flames, the smell of saffron, warm and seductive will fill your home.
—Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
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And what better way to lift a mood this season than with warm, moody, and seductive scents?
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
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For better or worse, there’s something very seductive about the show.
—The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
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It is said that the botos are so seductive that women wind up pregnant with their babies.
—Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2020
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The amber adds a level of warmth that brings out the carnal, seductive side of the scent.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
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Greed, on the other hand, is the seductive siren song of the financial world.
—Wayne Anderman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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From the seductive hum of being needed by someone the world adored.
—Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
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Which is why the Musk thesis feels seductive to parts of the right and to tech centrists.
—Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
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Even when the hooks are sweet or seductive, her work is still dissonant and provocative.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
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With vivid lyrics, seductive strings, and dark, brooding guitar twangs, each song sounds like a scene from a movie.
—Alex Gonzalez, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2022
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My naked body was obscured by the darkness, but still, the video was highly seductive.
—The Cut, 13 May 2018
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But this is a very positive thing, too, and part of what makes Athens so seductive.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
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For the Fab Four, the world was their dizzy, seductive oyster.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
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In the end, Madame Yale’s seductive sales pitch proved her downfall.
—Emmeline Clein, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
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Even her sunglasses couldn’t hide her blush and cat-eye lashes, which made the look even more seductive.
—Essence, 22 Jan. 2026
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And the women had to be seductive—only an object.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2025
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Each wrap of gold is set to reveal hints of skin in between for a seductive display of power.
—Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
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The images are seductive, but that's not the point, Smerling said.
—Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
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The sound of an egg frying in hot hot oil is as seductive as Marvin Gaye.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2019
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That would allow a raw, hard story to become a seductive one, a story of love.
—Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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