How to Use seductive in a Sentence

seductive

adjective
  • People always remarked on the cult leader's seductive personality.
  • For the Fab Four, the world was their dizzy, seductive oyster.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The amber adds a level of warmth that brings out the carnal, seductive side of the scent.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
  • With or without the flames, the smell of saffron, warm and seductive will fill your home.
    Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Her makeup, too, is toned down -- a nude lip instead of the seductive red.
    Marianna Cerini, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • It's got the glitz, the gorgeous people and the gleefully seductive looks.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • In some ways the movie is like when the lights come on at the end of the night in a club and what once felt seductive is in an instant revealed to be seedy.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • If seductive mystery is more your thing, head back to the Four Seasons Madrid for a night at Isa.
    Danielle Pointdujour, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But this is a very positive thing, too, and part of what makes Athens so seductive.
    New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Also seductive are the views from the emerald chapel and terrace on the second floor.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, there are no edges at all, but rather, smooth flowing curves as seductive as those of any car from the early 1960s.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 May 2022
  • As a showcase for him and for Lovibond, Minx couldn’t be more seductive.
    Judy Berman, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Sam Heughan has been known to show off a seductive side as Jamie Fraser on Outlander.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Frankel said that both Ponzi and Madoff had the kind of seductive charm that Giordano, the actor, referred to.
    Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Stories about the glitz and glamour of 1950s Idlewild are seductive, even to academics.
    Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • But Andrew McMahon knew how to bring in the keys to accent the song’s seductive nature.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • For better or worse, there’s something very seductive about the show.
    The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The trick to playing Carlo Ponzi on stage—yes, that Carlo Ponzi, the famous scam artist—is to be heinous, but seductive.
    Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Even when the hooks are sweet or seductive, her work is still dissonant and provocative.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • To Greene, the story of the N.R.A. is just one more example of how seductive—and how destructive—the language of rights can be.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • Nobody needs to pack heat or chain-smoke to savor the darkly seductive allure of noir.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2023
  • The public first got a whiff of the exploits of the seductive swordsman in 1897, in a play that bears his name and has been retold on stage and screen scores of time ever since.
    Mike Hammer, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The seductive boom of ‘90s R&B, and memories of middle school dances lured us inside.
    Samantha Mann, ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
  • To design in a way that was seductive, by '70s standards, was precisely the point.
    Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The Red House, like the entire island, is seductive, and Lee describes it exquisitely.
    Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2021
  • There are elements here of the classic thriller that function like a flock of seductive doves, released to distract the eye.
    Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • There is nothing more appealing and seductive than a man in black.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The seductive track is an anthem for all the baddies across the land as the men praise women universally who carry that bold energy proudly.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The seductive and voluptuous Jessica Rabbit is Roger’s wife.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024

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