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UK
/ɐtɹˈækt/
]
[ US /əˈtɹækt/ ]
[ US /əˈtɹækt/ ]
VERB
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direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
Her good looks attract the stares of many men
The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers
The ad pulled in many potential customers
This pianist pulls huge crowds -
exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies -
be attractive to
The idea of a vacation appeals to me
The beautiful garden attracted many people
How To Use attract In A Sentence
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
- The plateau is 1300 meters above sea level and attracts people for its natural beauties, clean weather, and cold spring water. Archive 2009-05-01
- It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
- This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
- This picture does not do justice to the attractiveness of all the boats and yachts that are anchored in this area.
- Probably something about the wildness of the voices is attractive to them. "For Children"
- She knew now how attractive Miguel could be when he wanted to be, and she knew he could manipulate her feelings.
