How to Use inducement in a Sentence

inducement

noun

• Employees were offered a bonus as an inducement to finish the project on schedule.
• The low interest rate was little inducement for individuals to save money.
• Was his decision influenced by any illegal financial inducements?
• Even with these inducements, Ukraine might still refuse the call for a cease-fire.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
• In the private sector that would be called fraud in the inducement.
  — WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• But if the abatement is weighted more, So that there’s a bigger inducement to go and build an Hoff.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• Truth be told, for the stars, there are commercial inducements as well.
  — SI.com, 24 July 2019
• The edge of the rink delivered electric shocks when touched, an inducement to keep skating.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• People in Allendale want help to move to places where there are good jobs, not inducements to stay where there are none.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• This is not the mere inducement to a partnership, as described in South Dakota v. Dole.
  — Dave Yost, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• In other words, a strong inducement to borrow and spend remains.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Many more accepted thick envelopes of Russian rubles on top of their pay as an inducement to stay in their jobs.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The Bucks have sued the Van Dykes for breach of contract, civil theft and fraudulent inducement, among other claims.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• A number of top Wall Street banks are offering free food as an inducement.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• The Circuit panel’s inducement to Trump to appeal to the justices by this coming Monday was not an effort to speed the case along.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• Working with the world’s best coaches was a major inducement.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
• The sweepstakes appears to be little more than an inducement for getting people to call in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The pages center on Juicy's first encounter with the ghost of his father, Pap, and his father's inducement to seek revenge for his murder.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• In the lawsuit, the Bloomberg campaign is accused of fraudulent inducement and breach of contract.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
• The only inducement to slacking off is a square of artificial turf and a mirror propped up in front to practice his golf swing.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Employees may keep their 401(k)s and add money to them, but without the inducement of a company match.
  — Carrie McCabe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hulseberg pointed out that the inducements are not commitments for the districts.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 21 Feb. 2018
• A certain amount of badgering of friends and allies—along with veiled threats and inducements—comes with the territory.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• The prospect of trial on a date certain can be an inducement for a criminal defendant to agree to a plea bargain, saving the the time and expense of a trial.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2021
• That is not where inducements to violence against Trump’s opponents have stemmed from.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2018
• Gorsuch quotes the records of the negotiations, in which Sherman used the question of water as an inducement for the Navajo to settle.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• With inducements and deals, loans and intense diplomatic pressure Beijing has picked off one African country at a time.
  — David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN, 8 June 2018
• The stereo performance is about an A-; songs sound clear and well-reproduced but don’t have that certain goose-bump inducement, which is more a luxury-brand item.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2019
• With little inducement, Cavaliere sat in a chair perched in the center of the school's cafeteria as staff, faculty, and students looked on.
  — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 15 May 2018
• Maybe this is considerably cheaper and that’s the inducement.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024