How to Use attract in a Sentence

attract

verb
  • The chance to travel around the world attracted me to a career as a flight attendant.
  • The bird's colorful feathers are used to attract a mate.
  • The scent will attract certain insects.
  • Her bright blue eyes attracted me.
  • The museum attracts visitors from all over the world.
  • Certain insects are attracted by the scent.
  • The company has a difficult time attracting good employees because of its poor pay and benefits.
  • Bryant hopes to attract more donors in the coming year.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But he isn’t attracted to her and hopes to throw her into the arms of his pal.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • But who you’re attracted to — the who — is the most important thing.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Food attracts stink bugs in your house just like other pests.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
  • The Voie Verte, one of the oldest greenways in France, attracts many cyclists.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • The goal for the park has always been to attract people to the city’s downtown, which was long home to offices, Ladd said.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • All that trash used to sit on the street out of containers for hours, attracting rats.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Click here to read more about the way campaigns are leaning on Google and news to attract voters.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The restaurant is one of the most famous in the country, attracting hordes of tourists and locals alike.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
  • Expect his food and drinks to attract many as people come from far and wide to Eden Roc for its Art Week events.
    Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For starters, what attracts you to these down-on-their-luck everymen?
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The tax credits are designed to bring prices down and attract more buyers.
    Tom Krisher and Fatima Hussein, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And all he's done is now give someone else a chance to attract that vote in Iowa and South Carolina.
    Jacob Rosen, Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • What attracted me to this whole world was the intimacy of that tragedy.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • That’s too bad, both for the historical record and for the new buyers of Barbie that the film’s success will attract.
    Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The honeydew—a sweet, clear liquid the lanternflies excrete as waste—attracts ants, wasps, and bees, which like to eat it.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 June 2023
  • The duo’s set on Friday attracted lots of bony youngsters in skullcaps.
    M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Some of these scholarships are used to attract wealthy students.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Take a cue from Zillow's research and look to moody colors rather than the usual white or taupe to attract buyers.
    Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2024
  • For decades, humans have set traps for cockroaches and laced them with sugar to attract the insects to their doom.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That was to attract top talent and boost the company, as any smart businessperson would do.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The couple captured his escape in a TikTok video, which quickly went viral, attracting 1.6 million views.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The reality is stark: TGI Fridays has closed over 20% of its locations in the past year, and the remaining restaurants are struggling to attract diners as consumers move away from traditional dining in key markets.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024

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