(a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
(a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
(n.) That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
(2) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(3) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(5) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(6) Synthetic N-formylmethionyl peptides are chemotactic attractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(8) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(9) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
(10) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(11) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(12) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(13) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(16) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(17) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
(18) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(19) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Bonnie
Definition:
(a.) See Bonny, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blake, 80, the star of In Cold Blood and the Baretta TV series, was accused of involvement in the death of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was shot outside a Los Angeles restaurant in May 2001.
(2) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
(3) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
(4) Her first appearance in the New Yorker, in 1967, was a 6,000-word essay eulogising Bonnie And Clyde as "the most excitingly American movie since The Manchurian Candidate".
(5) It sends a signal to Xi Jinping that this is a president that means business Bonnie Glaser, foreign policy expert “The fact that he did this while Xi Jinping is in Mar-a-Lago is quite telling.
(6) I take you very, very seriously.” Pretzell and Petry are like Bonnie and Clyde, pursuing a course of ambush through the German public Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel Not for a long time has so much been written and said about a single German politician (other than Merkel).
(7) An inquest into Bonnie's death has not yet taken place.
(8) A few yards from the Munich clock, the memorial to the victims of the 1958 air disaster, Ian McGill, 58, a haulage contractor from Bristol, was explaining its significance to his grand-daughters, Bonnie, eight, and Milly, seven.
(9) Measham's drug research was already in the pipeline when Bonnie died.
(10) The lovey-dovey duo – glimmers of spontaneous affection, particularly those initiated by Jay Z, sent the crowd into a frenzy – began with Bonnie & Clyde, with Beyonce seductively walking into view to reveal a fishnet leotard and matching ski mask.
(11) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
(12) When Don Was (Grammy-winning producer of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many more) took over as president of the record label Blue Note earlier this year, one of his first decisions was to sign the 67-year old singer.
(13) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
(14) To this end he has, from the start, cloaked himself in personae, releasing his records via a small British independent label, Domino, under a series of tangentially related pseudonyms: Palace, Palace Music, Palace Songs and, latterly, Bonnie Prince Billy - 'It's got the Wild West, the Billy the Kid thing and the Celtic thing.'
(15) Bonnie Glaser, the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank in Washington, said a ruling that questioned or rejected China’s “nine-dash line” would not invalidate all of Beijing’s claims to land or maritime zones in the South China Sea.
(16) They are entirely without merit and are a classic example of studio 'bullying tactics,'" said lawyer Bonnie Eskenazi, in a statement.
(17) It makes sense to work with a UK law firm,” said Amasenibo Abere, a Bonny island community leader whose fishing grounds were devastated in late November 2014 when a Shell pipeline was damaged, spilling thousands of barrels of oil into creeks and swamps .
(18) I suppose my time there will pass quickly in a series of short, varied, representative scenes with Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero playing in the background!” This was met in a silence chilled with liquid nitrogen.
(19) THE KALANICK FILE Born Travis Kalanick, 6 August 1976, in Los Angeles to Donald, an engineer, and Bonnie, who worked in advertising for the Los Angeles Daily News .
(20) Dawn McCarthy And Bonny "Prince" Billy Christmas Eve Can Kill You (Domino, 2012) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reading this on mobile?