Used in a Sentence

enticing

How to use enticing in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for enticing.

Editorial note

And, making it look like a pink version of Digg circa 2007 isn't enticing me at all. I do not need avatars, lots of whitespace, fancy fonts, etc.

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Quick take

highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of enticing gathered in one view.

adjective

highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for enticing.

adjective

highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"

Example sentences

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And, making it look like a pink version of Digg circa 2007 isn't enticing me at all. I do not need avatars, lots of whitespace, fancy fonts, etc.

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I only use ubuntu on my servers but this definitely is enticing.

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Forbes filtered the article and presented the most enticing part. Filtering/curation is of enormous value - on the web and in app stores.

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Serving your paying customers and enticing pirates towards being paying customers is how ALL rights holders should behave. It's been all stick and no carrot for so long.

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Google didn't choose the open-source route because it figured consumers would find that enticing. They did that to encourage development on a low marketshare platform.

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Suicide for a defendant can, therefore, seem almost enticing. A siren who sings of a quick and easy escape from seemingly insurmountable troubles.

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So, it's enticing, the thought there that you might have a well-supported, completely open platform that you could deliver content through the Steam ecosystem there. It's a tough sell on there, but Valve gets huge kudos for having the vision for what they did with Steam, sticking through all of it.

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You may think you're enticing the beginner by teasing all the cool things they'll eventually get into, but it ends up being a disservice. They're already entering a world of confusion and frustration, no need to add orthogonal concepts to the mix.

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Consumers would probably love it, because it's very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else's.

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I love what Android used to stand for, but lately I'm finding it harder to stand by my principles, with Apple providing a very enticing walled garden that's getting harder to avoid.

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While being a billionaire business man is very enticing, right now, at this point in my life, all I want is to be happy, and working 80 hour weeks to risk it on a 3% chance to make it something amazing just isn't worth it for it.

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Patents are supposed to encourage innovation by enticing people to create their own alternate solutions, but in software, and more or less only in software, you can patent ideas. And if you want to claim that this is not true, I would ask you to explain exactly how Barnes and Noble violated the patent in any other manner, given what I've said above.

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Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects, Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.

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It will happen because things like twitter, facebook, google maps, and so forth created an overall smartphone landscape which was enticing enough to cause the wealthiest people in the world to spend considerable amounts of money buying smartphones. And in the process subsidizing the development of the core technology of the most easily mass-produced and most intuitive to use computing devices in history.

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This again could be interpreted several ways, but the two most enticing ones are that the US isn't sending a lot of fishing requests because when they request data from FB, they're already pretty certain about what they're looking to find. The more disturbing concern would be if the US only queries FB for things where the NSA's database is insufficient, which would mean the number of requests they submit to Facebook is not at all indicative of how many queries on user data they actually do.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use enticing in a sentence?

And, making it look like a pink version of Digg circa 2007 isn't enticing me at all. I do not need avatars, lots of whitespace, fancy fonts, etc.

What does enticing mean?

highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"

What part of speech is enticing?

enticing is commonly used as adjective.