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UK
/ɐtɹˈækʃən/
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[ US /əˈtɹækʃən/ ]
[ US /əˈtɹækʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an entertainment that is offered to the public
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a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
flowers are an attractor for bees -
the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
her personality held a strange attraction for him - the force by which one object attracts another
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an entertainer who attracts large audiences
he was the biggest drawing card they had
How To Use attraction In A Sentence
- 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.
- As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
- Nearby attractions: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation, Hilo.
- 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
- It is likely to have benefited more from erecting the jawbone outside the island kirk and turning it into a tourist attraction, than the museum, which will simply be adding it to its existing collection.
- This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
- The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
- I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
- Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.