(v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
(n.) Allurement.
(n.) Gait; bearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
(2) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(3) With climate risks high and profit margins low, Australian farms do not hold irresistible allure for the Chinese.
(4) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
(5) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
(6) The few alluring aspect of these patients would signify the derogatory imago of a destroyed body, that does not be the mediator of the relationship to the other.
(7) Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said that the deal showed that Britain “has lost none of its allure to international investors”, but industry leaders warned it was a setback for the country.
(8) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(9) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(10) Rows of pleasing redbrick homes are cheap and potentially alluring for escapees from the unaffordable south.
(11) The very things that give small charities their allure can also be their greatest limitations Having been managed by a founder in three out of my four major jobs, and working closely with one in the fourth, I have lived out all the symptoms: ad-hoc practices with no systems and processes, unilateral decisions at the whim of the founder, a resistance to professionalising and losing the personal touch, and a way of working that revolves entirely around one person because the assumption is that this immortal personality will be around forever.
(12) The highest predictability and the highest bond strength were both found with the Allure bracket system.
(13) If he doesn’t want to lose his allure and go down as the man who oversaw euro exit, it is his only option.” The battle lines are being drawn – in and outside Greece.
(14) I think what we’re seeing in Australia is very much the focus on acquiring premium, highest quality, high-value brands that will enable a very significant mark-up or profit with the wealthiest element of Chinese society.” It is not that the Australian farms hold irresistible allure for the Chinese or come without hitches, as KPMG points out.
(15) We removed 122 ceramic brackets (A-Company Starfire, GAC Allure, and Unitek Transcend) from eight extracted teeth by grinding with high-speed diamond burs or low-speed green stones, both with and without air or water coolant.
(16) It's partial setting in the 50s deliberately echoes Frank Capra, and it would be daft to underestimate the reach of the allure of this peachy American dream.
(17) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
(18) It seems likely that she has been influenced not only by Theron's choice of roles and but also by her determination not to allow her obvious allure to undermine her reputation.
(19) Kumamon is kawaii – the word is translated as “cute”, but the word has broad, multilayered meanings, encompassing a range of sweetly alluring images and behaviours.
(20) For all the alluring backstory, questions still remain.
Toll
Definition:
(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
(v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
(v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
(n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
(n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
(n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
(n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
(v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.
(v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
(v. t.) To collect, as a toll.
Example Sentences:
(1) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(2) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(3) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(4) The number of killings in Iraq has reached levels unseen since 2008 in recent months and Sunday's attacks bring the death toll across the country in October to 545, according to an Associated Press count.
(5) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
(6) AP reported a lower death toll of one killed and 20 wounded.
(7) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
(8) Chinese authorities have raised the death toll from Beijing's floods to 77 from 37 after the public questioned the days-old tally.
(9) Undoubtedly, as repeatedly urged, appropriate selective screening and health education could effectively reduce the toll of mortality, especially in high-risk developing populations.
(10) In fact the UN estimates the total death toll, regardless of responsibility, to be about 93,000 people.
(11) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
(12) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
(13) The combined mortality and morbidity from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage exceeds 40%, and therefore yields a remarkably high toll of human and economic loss.
(14) And at the coalface of Israeli coalition management, where every deal is done over the still-twitching body of an ally fervently opposed to it, the economics of disappointment eventually take a toll.
(15) Murdoch's British newspapers, which include the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, suffered a 14% drop in year-end advertising revenue as the recession took its toll.
(16) But it had already taken its toll on the Deghayes's children.
(17) The death toll was expected to rise sharply and 20,000 civilians were sheltering in two UN bases in Juba.
(18) The death toll in Gaza has climbed to at least 480, with more than 2,300 wounded, according to Palestinian medical officials.
(19) The devastating toll it has had on this generation of children is far-reaching.
(20) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.