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.
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?
In the period after the interval their methodical probing of the Hibs rearguard continued and Alex Burns should have done more than blaze wide of the target when presented with an inviting, angled opening.
This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
As an aside to its fundraising campaign, the Sussex Archaeological Society is inviting the 1960s diggers to a reunion on 22 May - all 800 of them.
The impertinence of inviting us to such a mean banquet!
A consultation paper has been posted on the Internet inviting input from Net users.
"To borrow someone's phrase - elections are not about inviting guests for meals.
This third edition: – has 10 completely new units, including 9 new units on phrasal verbs to more thoroughly cover this important area for intermediate students. – has even more Additional Exercises, to offer more contrastive practice. – is in full colour and has a slightly larger format to look clearer and more inviting for students. English Grammar In Use with Answers and CD ROM: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English « Books « Literacy News
It doubled as a bedroom and a sitting room with its two deep blue chairs inviting one to sink down and meditate by the fire. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The revenue from ticket sales, together with the sponsor fee, will cover the performance expenses, including the fees involved with inviting the guests and putting up the field set.
During the summer months, if the weather forecast is a bit iffy, a good idea when inviting family and friends round is to have a casual buffet lunch.
The leaves of the great poplar he climbed in gleamed as though polished; bead-like fruit dangled, inviting young hands to burst the green capsules open and release the fluffy seed.
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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
Under the rules of Citizendium all are freet o edit existing articles, but experience has shown that misunderstandings tend to arise if alterations are made without first inviting discussion on the article's talk page - as a result, as for example of lack of awareness of the specialised interpretations that economists apply to some everday terms. of other disciplines concerning the clarity of existing articles are also very welcome. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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).
It was a glorious sunny day, the sea was inviting and it was slap bang in the middle of the holiday season. The Sun
Inviting people over to write could interesting, making the page more "participative", though these pages will not be open to philochavistas besides the comment section. 01/02/2005 - 01/09/2005
Another resolution inviting all sick societies to remove their lodges from the public houses to the schools was also carried.
Columbia University, by inviting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic. Thom Hartmann: Columbia University Shows True American Values
The February air was soft, cool, and inviting.
The Wardandi Dreaming Dancers are bringing back traditional dance culture and inviting other Aboriginal dance groups to join them in corroborees in their tribal lands, which take place in the Margaret River Region in WA's south-west.
All disciplinary procedures should include inviting the employee formally to a disciplinary hearing. Times, Sunday Times
Lake District National Park Authority rangers will be on their bikes and inviting guests to join them as they explore cycle tracks and bridleways around the area on Monday.
Cameron's posing on a podium on Friday, inviting Lib Dems to join his Tory revolution, was an appropriate piece of pantomime to end Parliament's last full week before Christmas.
I guess it must be nearly impossible to transcend the uninviting, unappealing, unnerving stigma of hospitals - regardless of good or bad design.
This really does look uninviting after dark, and is used by many more people, whilst this additional lighting would benefit both the school and the leisure centre entrances.
I suggested inviting them for a visit but he just grunted. The Sun
How deep does his Peter Pan-syndrome run when he thinks inviting pre-pubescent boys over to scrump is okay? Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings
Cure a bad case of cabin fever by inviting friends over for an evening of cards or old-fashioned board games.
In the main gallery a video installation entitled Sleeping is immediate and personal, inviting you to listen and feel.
I realize I'm inviting much ridicule from my friends on the left, but I'm going to write this post anyway, and I'm going to leave the title intact - Why Twitter Matters & The Left Should Be Nervous. Why Twitter Matters & The Left Should Be Nervous
The OED describes a "gazillionaire" as "a person of great wealth," cuing in readers to the fact that there is no actual gazillion number and inviting comparison with the later "bazillionaire. Are You a Bridezilla? Check the OED
No one can publicly admit to seeing the bright side without inviting ridicule and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
Publishers could help by inviting authors to state in the prefaces to their books what in their view would constitute valid and serious grounds for scholarly criticism and disagreement.
With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting.
In response, the ACLU is launching an anti-bag search campaign -- including educational fliers, a petition and even plans for two "symposia" -- and the D.C. chapter of the organization is inviting those who have been searched to step forward. ACLU to sue Metro over random bag checks
Such expeditions were set on foot either by some chieftain who rode from aoul to aoul calling upon the brave to follow him; or by a summons sent abroad to the warriors of a certain district inviting them to assemble in the council ring at a given time and place for the purpose of agreeing upon an attack upon some fort, or a foray within the lines of the enemy. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
It turns out this was for charity, inviting people to float a fiver. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor also features antique wood panelling on the walls and front bar with an inviting open gas fire near the entrance.
He will not be the first, or the last, and inviting one or two into the A-team squad for training will not serve to halt the exodus.
Some churches are as warm and inviting as a mortuary slab.
He's notorious among Utah enviros for not even inviting environmental experts or advocates to be involved in state/industry negotiations over environmental policy.
Several Internet sites are inviting people to join in the fun for free.
Even when the setting is warm and inviting the appeal of stripping away comfort and luxury seems dubious.
He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe.
Hat turned to the others, smiling, inviting them to share Dalziel's joke. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
And he tricked a man into inviting him to a party where his grandchildren were present. The Sun
The final fence is usually an inviting, straight forward obstacle but it can still cause problems.
Unlike most pianos, the keyboard is accessible and inviting. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to lessen the coldness of the gray and add an inviting warmth to the store design.
The saga begins in London with the American hostess Barbara Heinz inviting Dorrit to lunch.
He retired after only a single appointed term, issuing a public blast against his own party and virtually inviting the opposition to take over his seat.
Lounge on inviting velvet banquettes, leather easy chairs or oversized ottomans and sip their divine cocktails.
There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances.
He tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy.
Inviting alien terrorists into civil courts provides a national stage for political theatrics, where their unimaginable savageries equate to common murder. Terrorist Trials Are About Terrorists, Not Mr. Holder
The story transpires in rural Georgia, and Green pulls the audience into this uninviting setting from the first frame.
The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
The men hammering it together had beckoned us, beaming, inviting inspection.
Central to the transformation was the creation of an inviting sitting area oriented toward a new gas fireplace flanked by tall bookshelves.
He had been nervous about inviting us.
The marchers distributed handbills to onlookers, pedestrians, commuters and motorists inviting them to the crusade at sites nearest to their homes.
She brought her piano from home and put it against one wall, right next to a bookshelf containing some board games, not far from shelves lined with books, their spines worn and inviting.
Like many critics of Federation Square, this guy emphasised the harshness, angularity and general uninvitingness of the development.
And, by the way; Chiapas is not a place with beautiful beaches but has a huge, uninviting and undeveloped coastal region of dismal black sand and turbid Pacific coastal waters interspersed with poverty stricken and impossibly hot and humid villages existing in utmost poverty. Plan Puebla-Panama. Yay or Nay?
This involved, among other things, inviting them into his own home, and the homes of members of his congregation.
Not being able to hold in a hoarse laugh of relief the General reached out to the manual override sitting in front of him, the redness beaming invitingly.
The new place is colourful and inviting, as sunflower-yellow walls help to show off Obadia's collection of colourful wall hangings, photographs, ornamental pots and fanciful souvenirs.
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude.
She greeted the visitor cordially, inviting her to stay for breakfast.
Several Internet sites are inviting people to join in the fun for free.
The effort, part of a grander scheme known as "Rethink Church," uses "nonchurch language" and "positive land mines" to attract young people by inviting them to look at the faith with fresh eyes, Einstein writes in a forthcoming essay, "The Evolution of Religious Branding. Faiths Ad Campaigns Chase After The Great 'I Am'
Still, the ambiance was wonderful: comfortably bohemian, chicly shabby, unfussily inviting and many other jolly terms designed to defuse my wife's urges toward home improvement. Blessings of the Season
And one does not have to be a lawyer to understand that inviting such a person to sign a legal form, especially without first taking careful steps to make sure they're not incapacitated, is highly unethical. Balkinization
By walking with authority, you are less inviting for a criminal who will attempt to use control to cause harm.
To start at the end of the list of reasons for not inviting solidagos into the garden, they do not cause hay fever.
The poor English lads look tired and are falling deeper and deeper, inviting trouble.
I am inviting Norway Bob/seixion to join me. seixion!! your guy “Bush” will be forever inshrined as the most brillant American ever. Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 13, 2006
You can't tell the child to poke the dog or whatever - you have to make the dog so invitingly pokable that the child does it and so starts whatever interactive element you have tied to that. Archive 2010-05-01
But I'm not about inviting close to one hundred strangers into my home, no way.
From the lede of this article:A policewoman today told how the former vice-master of a Cambridge college "groped" her while making a "pervy Benny Hill noise" after inviting her to his room for gin and tonics. Best Quote Ever
How about inviting a man out and idling away an hour over a cup of coffee? Times, Sunday Times
Thanks so much for inviting us today.
Rogers adopts a strictly chronological approach, which makes his book an engaging, inviting read.
They keep inviting him out to hunt with them, to go drinking in the ale houses, to roister round the streets in masks, and he, nervously, declines. The White Queen
She wanted to make a furious retort, to tell him that she thought the saggar had been inviting her to stroke the bird, but pride prevented her. Falcon's Prey
But because they're often paved, bricked, or tiled, they have a tendency to look cold and uninviting.
You're inviting a whole world of woe to come crashing down on your shoulders there. Times, Sunday Times
They had to endure almost constant second half pressure, wasting countless opportunities to ease the nail-biting tension and, quite frankly, inviting trouble.
There is essentially a new filter in the application process, because the Government is inviting people to apply.
The block is "uninviting", "treeless", shadowy; the buzzer is broken; the sounds of gunfire echo in the night; a "black doberman the size of a wolf" prowls nearby. The Guardian World News
In the warm sunshine ancient courtyards beckon, inviting exploration.
City governments passed tongue-in-cheek ordinances prohibiting Skylab from entering the municipal limits, or inviting it into the town, depending on the mood they were in.
The interior is meticulously designed with inviting hardwood floors and curving wooden counters reflecting the rounded ceiling of the curvilinear trailer.
Everyone who makes more money than me can pretty much lick my balls, unless they’re inviting me on their yacht (which I will pronounce "yacked"). STRIKE OVER?
WeI'd like to thank Chaintech for inviting us, and thanks to the manufacturers who were nice enough to demo some cool stuff.
Parents at a large number of schools at each site were approached randomly during preregistration for kindergarten by research staff inviting them to participate.
He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house.
Using this instrument, preceptees' attitudes toward their preceptors may be identified and professionally inviting practices determined.
Vincent muttered darkly, ‘I don't recall inviting you two boneheads.’
Now the enterprising county council is inviting tourists to rediscover one of the region's most beguiling attractions, Sherwood Forest.
The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
But he says inviting the fringe inside is a necessary part of community deradicalisation.
And if we are reacting mutedly, than we're inviting further attacks and further arming of Hezbollah. CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006
Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn't really my cup of tea.
I eat anything, and your ackee smells very inviting.
With the help of professionals we are inviting the public to walk over a 20 ft path of red-hot coals.
As part of the promotion a Morris Oil team travelled around the region demonstrating the zippy Citroen Xsara and inviting people to sign up for the giveaway.
I knew my parents would be back anytime soon, and inviting James over was risky business.
Indian slate makes this fireplace, with its hand-crafted mantel, a particularly inviting feature of the room.
A convinced social democrat, she shocked friends by inviting Chancellor Helmut Kohl to her home in Berlin's grungy Prenzlauer Berg.
I will also be sending out emails, inviting various tech firms, thought leaders, and researchers to jump in.
Prostate cancer treatment invitingly to the girlishly sensing pop logagraphia and you voider tinnitus a annular percoidean in the steering. Rational Review
True, even now, a few narrow valleys, or wadies, show signs of great fertility, but the greater part is quite uninviting. My Three Days in Gilead
Students raid the fridge of the week's leftovers and concoct an elaborate meal, inviting over friends and family.
This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
The email condemned President Obama for inviting to the White House a woman who volunteered in George Tiller's clinic as "yet another connection between Obama and late-term abortionist George Tiller. Eric Sapp: Was Tiller's Murder Justice?
In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of "yoof" cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of "climate crime cards", urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a "climate crime case file" in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not "commit those crimes again (or else)! An Ominous Story
The only fear is test in our overanxiety we give them a degree of independence for which they are unfit, thereby inviting reaction and disaster. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
The super-cute shop is always inviting, with the lovely smell of roses filling the air and rose petals scattered outside the entrance.
Though what we see is a woman lifting her shift and baring her legs, she is not inviting observation.
these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth
an inviting offer
A few days later I received some flowers and a note inviting me to come to Patrick’s estate, called La Salle, in Burgundy, for his annual August polo tournament. One From The Hart
Debating groups like this are a common feature in Italian trecento and quattrocento narratives and usually serve to comment on scenes in the margin of which they appear, thus inviting the beholder to engage with what is represented.
Agamemnon, however, had happily studied up the German word "Herr," and he applied it to the German, inviting him by signs to take a seat in the other carryall. The Peterkin Papers
And the organisers are also inviting novice and first-time triathletes to compete for one of a dozen spot prizes.
COCE is an overseas building contractor ranking the first in china with a galaxy of talents good at international project administration and international bids as well as inviting of bids.
Using peer to peer programs is like inviting spyware into your computer.
Urging deep cuts in federal spending, GOP lawmakers are threatening to oppose an increase in the federal debt limit, inviting what Geithner warns would be a devastating default by the government.
My wife is always inviting various waifs and strays from work to our house. She seems to attract them.
An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.
Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Especially inviting is the entrance alcove, with wooden park benches bathed in sunlight from the street-facing windows.
He faced the uninviting prospect of a two-hour wait for the next train.
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar. Chapter 17
The building was cold, dark, and uninviting.
The only thing this bar has established is a snobby, cold & uninviting atmosphere.
Griqualand East in the Eastern Cape will be tantamount to inviting anarchy. ANC Daily News Briefing
The ridge of shaley rock where the shots had come from looked uninviting, though. Comanche Moon
Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room.
(ANSA) - Rome, September 26 - A Facebook group inviting young people to join the Camorra is the latest mafia fan club to pop up on the popular social networking site, web observers said Monday. Gates of Vienna
That said, Dodgers "owner" Frank McCourt, by inviting the intervention of the courts through a bankruptcy filing, has thrown a beanball not just at the head of Commissioner Bud Selig, but at the private legal empire known as Major League Baseball's rulebook. Law vs. Baseball Law
An interiorly lit cottage, warm & inviting, offers succor to us all. Most Expensive Living Artist - Lucian Freud
It is the owner's desire to foster a commercial advantage by inviting persons to visit the premises that justifies imposition of a higher duty. Christianity Today
Smith suggests inviting a date to an event that has already been planned, like a work affair or a friend's party.
But suddenly the sight of Giuseppe Signori's invitingly lofted ball into the penalty area put a spring in his step.
I gaze at the unopened books with dead eyes, and the pack of cards is as uninviting as yesterday's milk.
Marilyn Monroe had bought the film rights with a view to inviting Olivier to be her co-star and director.
A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday. Star-Dust
As imam, he reaches out to the non-Muslim community in France, inviting local authorities to religious holidays. French Imam Teaching Tolerance and Inclusion
They ran across the keys, inviting the computer to access Operation Tinkerbell. THE ONLY GAME
The classical architecture and the homy interiors are very inviting. Beautiful Residence in Cyprus from Armon Choros Architektonikis
Now what would otherwise have been a uninviting troglodytic restaurant is transformed into what promises to become a popular meeting place for the city's chattering classes.
At that moment, the string bed in the open courtyard of his village home, surrounded by loved ones and a pot of saag cooking on the family hearth, seems incredibly inviting.
He promised to "disobey" orders to deploy and acknowledge he was "inviting" court martial. Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
The yellow ochre stippled walls inside and the cream with green accents outside on the verandah all help to produce a warm and inviting ambience.
Me taky you my wikiup-HUH!" said Frank Whittaker invitingly. The Heart of Rachael
This kind of buttering-up may seem too obvious to be effective, as when Bill and Hillary Clinton started their "charm offensive" last summer by inviting White House reporters to dinner at the White House. Talent on Loan from the GOP
One thing that Bertie detested was rice and curry, so it happened that he alone partook of an inviting omelet. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
They invited further ridicule by inviting offers for the club by e-mail. Times, Sunday Times
But when he got a letter inviting him to a glitzy ceremony in London to receive the gong he sent it back. The Sun
Inviting a local school to participate in creating naturalized areas, putting up some bird houses and mapping your golf course are the additional requirements.
The stuccoed outside walls are painted cream; there is not a single piece of graffiti on those inviting blank walls.
If it's an experiment, you might want to start by inviting people to read your mind - or whatever - and establish a success rate among a few individuals who appear to be psychic enough to get in.
We are immediately greeted by the lively sounds of early birds chirping while the inviting aromas coming from the main attraction, the charcoal grill, easily flip my hunger switch.
It was a glorious sunny day, the sea was inviting and it was slap bang in the middle of the holiday season. The Sun
The story line is about a gay fashion designer inviting his friends over for lunch to confide a secret.
Architects may be inviting trouble when they indiscriminately specify clear waterproofing on all newly built, newly cleaned walls.
Prostate cancer treatment invitingly to the girlishly sensing pop logagraphia and you voider tinnitus a annular percoidean in the steering. Rational Review
Just in case my brain-befogged state rendered the rules less than perfectly clear, what YA author Phoebe Kitanidis and I are inviting the Author! Author! Author! » 2010 » April
The style could be described as invitingly strange or vague to the point of alienation, depending on one's appreciation of droning guitar instrumentals and lyrics about feeding your lover garbage. Austinist
The building was cold, dark, and uninviting.
The Department acknowledges the basic need to provide workplaces with easy access(Sentence dictionary), good lighting and an inviting atmosphere.
You'll rest your tired keister at night in some of the Alps most inviting resorts and inns.
His intention in inviting us to dinner was to persuade us to back his project.
Several Internet sites are inviting people to join in the fun for free.
Another effective strategy of communications is inviting not only the dealers but also customers to special events and new product launches.
The rear of his house looked blank and uninviting, like a beachfront park after closing time.
It's on a Saturday night and I'm planning on inviting all my friends to come and get legless at my expense.
You come up with brilliant ideas and plans that are actualized without inviting opposition or competition.
Again, I'd like to thank Steve for inviting me aboard and hope that y'all enjoy my posts.
Peaceful hideaways dotted invitingly throughout interrupted only occasionally by the splashes of a pair of swans and the melancholy soundings of the birds.
But outside the center, which was designed by Frank Gehry, in a new adjacent 2.5-acre park called Miami Beach SoundScape, a much larger audience watched the concert as the video was relayed live on the 7,000-square-foot white wall next to the center's inviting glass entryway. NYT > Home Page
But some on the other side were just as bad, inciting the hotheads and inviting a violent response.
The surf was bigger and stronger, the sun hotter and the amount of empty sand very inviting. Times, Sunday Times
The group is also inviting donations of spare or unused mobile phones so it can give them to local families in need.
Loneliness has rarely sounded so celebratory or inviting.
If you consider inviting people to come to the US cuz they can grow amoebae into microchips, but blocking them from citizenship for 15-20 years, to be a minor thing, well: you need to get out more. Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation
Squashy sofas nestle invitingly in the bay windows of the property's three reception rooms, and there are various seating alcoves scattered throughout.
He squares it invitingly across the six-yard line, and Zambrotta welts it to safety.

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