How to Use seductress in a Sentence

seductress

noun

• The bright yet retro red colour with metallic pigments will bring out the seductress in you.
  — Angela Lei, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
  — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• There were so many examples of the teenage seductress in he '90s.
  — Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
• Jamie Lee Curtis stars as a seductress who teams up with a group of robbers to steal a bunch of diamonds.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
• There were so many examples of this Lolita trope, or the teenage seductress, in our culture.
  — Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
• Maggie, too, is cast as a teenage seductress, responsible for the crimes against her.
  — Bryn Greenwood, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• Stause, 40, is featured prominently in the video, first as a seductress in the store, wearing a black leather dress, and later as the two make out in various locales.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
• But with the exception of a malign seductress, the characters are just too nice – which can be a comfort, but also a drama killer.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
• There were tiger print undies for the bold, silky robes for seductresses, and barely there sheer pieces for aspiring Bad Gals everywhere.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
• Just after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun enters the woodsy witchery of Virgo, the cosmos’ original self-seductress.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 19 Aug. 2017
• Others painted her as a seductress who had successfully reeled in a catch.
  — Chang Che, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• People have called Lucrezia many things over the years: seductress, murderess, femme fatale of the Borgia cabal.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
• Elsewhere, 21 Savage delivers his verse while being tied up to a chair by two seductresses.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2018
• Arianda must switch back and forth from playing a bawdy, swearing wannabe actress to a 19th-century seductress, pull off a British accent and hold her own against Broadway charmer Hugh Dancy.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2011
• Obviously, there’s more than meets the eye with this sultry, beautiful seductress, but her looks and allure cause men to easily fall into her evil trap.
  — Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
• At a metafictional level, Spark is taking revenge on her old seductress, Christina Kay.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
• Your Face Twice a Day Laziness is a powerful seductress, especially after a long day.
  — Kristin Perrotta, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Oct. 2018
• But female crayfish have taken on both roles – seductress and selector.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
• Poppaea appears here, played by Brenda Rae, in a guise utterly unlike the cheap, brazen seductress depicted by Roman sources.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 1 Mar. 2020
• Zemeckis told her that the studio was looking at people with bigger names for the role, but Rossellini felt uniquely prepared to play a seductress proffering an elixir for eternal youth.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2021
• If Riding is a first-class provocateur and seductress, her deeper motives often feel unclear.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• Elizabeth Taylor, who famously portrayed Cleopatra in the 1963 film, played the role as mostly a seductress, Deadline pointed out.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2020
• Colonial era films invented the exotic seductress and the foreign woman in distress, and modern movies and TV shows have ushered in the undesirable nerd, experts say.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
• Contemporary descriptions of Boleyn painted her as a seductress, as power-hungry, and even as a witch with six fingers who enchanted the king.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 2 Dec. 2019
• Her character, an inky-haired high school seductress turned murderer, opted for only thin purple and pink cardigans that were cropped to reveal a sinister slice of tummy.
  — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 13 June 2018
• Cleopatra, a powerful seductress, was considered a tricky foreigner in Mark Antony's Rome.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2016
• So were the beautiful Polish women, seductresses who, in these stories, almost invariably led naïve German men to racial self-degradation and doom.
  — Timothy Snyder, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• Lister proved a shrewd business owner, not to mention a diligent seductress of local gentlewomen.
  — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
• Three years after Viktoria Nasyrova fled Russia and a murder charge, the once glamorous seductress is but a shadow of her former self having traded in her expensive furs for a prison jumpsuit.
  — Peter Van Sant july 7, CBS News, 7 July 2018
• Despite a lack of evidence, authorities turned the suspected scheming seductress into the perfect scapegoat for their country’s wartime defeats and condemned her to death by firing squad.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024