[
US
/ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɪnvˈaɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɪnvˈaɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
attractive and tempting
an inviting offer
How To Use inviting In A Sentence
- Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
- She had a running battle with her microphone and her concentration (skiing off-piste from her notes, and inviting the audience to steer her back on course).
- Vincent muttered darkly, ‘I don't recall inviting you two boneheads.’
- And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
- The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
- A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
- She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
- Some brokers will even hire a "stager" who can tidy up the home, move furniture around and even re-hang pictures to create a more inviting living space. How To Sell Your Home In 2007
- A consultation paper has been posted on the Internet inviting input from Net users.
- Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it?