Temptation
a temptation (noun) - the feeling that you really want to do something...that you shouldn'ttempt (verb)
temptation beckons and it's just you, the fridge door and the chocolate inside!
a strong temptation
an overwhelming temptation
plunge into temptation
succumb to temptation
yield to temptation
give in to temptation
feel a temptation
it was hard to resist the temptation to yell things out the car window
we faced temptation and we did not bend
she resisted the temptation to lose herself in his scrutiny
Heikki's eyebrows rose, but she suppressed the temptation to examine whatever it was she had been given
I resisted the temptation to take my coffee to the bathroom and while away the morning soaking my sore feet
who could resist the temptation?
lead into temptation
the temptation must be resisted at all costs
who could resist the temptation to pirouette up stairs like this?
the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework.
an investment tempts investors
a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily.
the temptation to renege on the agreement
lock up your valuables so as not to put temptation in the way of thieves
a society in which people resisted the temptation to submit to authority
it is not rational to expect the best virtue where temptation is applied in the most trying form at the frailest time of human life
many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life
put out of temptation's way
avoid temptation
overcome temptation
there is a temptation on both sides
the temptation is to give the children everything they want to prevent them from crying
she resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame local inhabitants for their problems.
a new life away from the troubles and temptations that drew them to drugs and crime
the temptations which are offered by these products
the thought of the place as a place of great temptations
educate children about the temptations with which they may be faced
the last temptation of Christ
the degree of resistance to temptation was taken as an indication of the effectiveness of the punishment applied
expose him to the temptation
succumbing to a temptation
succumbing to the temptation of jumping to a conclusion too quickly
a great temptation to exploit this gift of nature without considering the implications
there may be a great temptation to seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity, you should wait awhile
protection in temptation and deliverance from evil
an unfair temptation to the poor!
the temptation of rhetorical excess on the campaign trail
they put her behind bars, where she expects only more temptation and no rehabilitation
he had to decide where he was going, but the temptation just to sit there was overwhelming
she'd been a temptation, a forbidden novelty, and now she was not even that
no man, no temptation, just me and my thoughts and Dreams
just looking at him made her feel that she had already given in to temptation
your sense of responsibility has already prevailed over temptation
resist the temptation to grab shares with the highest yields, they may be risky
books that are too small and portable are too much of a temptation
Example sentences:
* Temptation still beckons, even when it's just you and the fridge door and the chocolate inside!
* One of the hazards of interviewing is succumbing to the temptation of jumping to a conclusion too quickly, based perhaps on a hastily formed first impression.
* You have to expose him to the temptation, don't you?
* But the mere fact that grass (of a sort) will take over and grow without effort on the farmer's part, provides a great temptation to exploit this gift of nature without considering the implications.
* Although there may be a great temptation to seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity, you should wait awhile.
* The degree of resistance to temptation was taken as an indication of the effectiveness of the punishment applied.
* Interviewers cannot be sure of people's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38.
* It was as expensive as it looks, but then, Alaa bolero tops do not come at bargain basement prices and in any case who could resist the temptation to pirouette up stairs like this?
* There is a temptation on both sides for the pupil to spend his time doing this, but it soon becomes rather profitless.
* He resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame the local inhabitants for their problems.
* The temptation is to give them everything but their parents asked us not to do that because it makes it difficult for them to settle back home.
* Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework.
* For many people there is a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily.
* Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life, and few women, including leading feminists, would have thought of demanding more.
* It was hot weather and the temptation was too great.
* The image of Zuwaya past was of a society in which people resisted the temptation to submit to authority, either internal or external, and in
* But in the real world there is no outside agency to enforce cooperation between the players in the game, With no kind of super superpower to make sure that the players stand by any mutually beneficial agreement, the temptation to renege remains a powerful factor.
* The warmth of it was a lost temptation.
* She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman.
* Then we are to pray for the things we need for the doing of that holy will, food for the body and soul, forgiveness for the failures and sins of the past, and help to forgive others who sin against us, protection in temptation and deliverance from evil.
* It may be enough for an investment trust to tempt investors by describing the opportunity area in broad terms, and inasmuch as this temptation continues to work then the early investors can sell out at a profit to the later ones.
* We know how important it is to educate children, sometimes even those in their late primary school years, about the offending temptations with which they may be faced.
* Dhuoda thought of the palace as a place of great temptations.
* The belief that mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois were unusually full-blooded and therefore obliged to build unusually impenetrable defences against physical temptation is unconvincing: what made the temptations so great was precisely the extremism of the accepted moral standards, which also made the fall correspondingly more dramatic, as in the case of the Catholic-puritan Count Muffat in Emile Zola's Nana, the novel of prostitution in the Paris of the 1860s.
* It's a year of preparation for a new life away from the troubles and temptations that drew them to drugs and crime.
* But there wasn't the temptations you see now.
