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UK
/ɐlˈɔːɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /əˈɫʊɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /əˈɫʊɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
an alluring prospect
the voice was low and beguiling
difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement
a tempting invitation
her alluring smile
How To Use alluring In A Sentence
- Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex. Archive 2009-07-01
- Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
- The trade-off between performance, fees and illiquidity will make hedge funds much less alluring in the future. Times, Sunday Times
- They both tried to talk of ordinary things for the few moments before that meal was announced, and then some kind of devilment seemed to come into Amaryllis -- nothing could have been more seductive or alluring than her manner, while keeping to strict convention. The Price of Things
- Yet afterwards, when accustomedness had brought its reward of speed, there was still for Billy no time; for increased knowledge had only opened the way to other paths, untrodden and alluring. Miss Billy -- Married
- Tigers are alluring animals and stories about them always have a magnetic appeal.
- Alaska showed itself to be wild, rugged, unforgiving - yet at the same time alluring and welcoming.
- Her chasteness was somehow the outward proof, the external manifestation, of a potential for sexual abandon all the more alluring for being hidden, invisible.
- Valleys and sweet plains, waterfalls and rivers, glades where lovers would have walked and confluences where towns could have been built, the lovely island had all these accouter-ments, these alluring invitations to civilization. Hawaii
- At first sight, they appear as alluring as a soft-top sports car - glamorous, flash and a little racy.