(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.
Nubile
Definition:
(a.) Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was as if these middle-aged back-office executives were as famous as Lost's nubile stars.
(2) Carrie Fisher has given us the thing even the most far-flung space fantasist has struggled to imagine – a middle-aged mother who is just as powerful and important as she was as a nubile princess.
(3) Both girls are nubile and enjoy a normal school attendance.
(4) But when I picked up a copy of the paper, my confusion gave way to an emotion now familiar to me when confronted with the sight of nubile, healthy breasts – awkwardness.
(5) Emmanuelle Riva is now 85, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 81; because films from the 1950s preserve their nubile youth – Riva in bed with her Japanese lover in Hiroshima Mon Amour , Trintignant worshipping the bosom of Bardot in And God Created Woman – it's alarming to see them now with stiff but fragile limbs and worn, sagging faces.
(6) On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality.
(7) Still got the Lego students, though ... YorkerBouncer 15 August 2013 1:02pm Right, I have now scrolled to the bottom of this A-Level so-called "story" and there have been absolutely no pictures of nubile girls jumping.
(8) Any remarks Uncle Disgusting made about the comeliness of said nubile females were countered in print either with an onomatopoeic representation of someone vomiting (which, if memory serves, went “SPEEEEEEEOOOOOW!”) or with the phrase “pass the sickbag, Alice”.
(9) Elsewhere, there's needless repetition of the phrase "crazy ball" and a video that consists entirely of nubile young men and women being covered in melted chocolate.
(10) The incidence of anovulation increased over the age period of 20-25 yr, with a peak at 25 yr. A close parallel was found of the period of anovulation and the period of nubility.
(11) "Hef employs an elaborate system of procurement to keep the pipeline filled with willing nubile women," she explains.
(12) I don’t want to play someone’s wife and become a joke about plastic surgery.” Cattrall also talked about industry “pressure to stay young, and be young and bubbly and nubile: it’s suffocating”, but said she is much more encouraged by trends in high-quality television drama in recent years.
(13) Some stores think nothing of placing nubile female figures or risqué manga next to more mainstream fare.
(14) Any ageing rocker who surrounded himself with nubile females was referred to as “Uncle Disgusting”.
(15) It's clear, then, that Dodgson had a submerged erotic fascination with the nubile female form.
(16) (In universities, at around the same time, the new field of evolutionary psychology was explaining that heterosexual human mating rituals were a compromise between males who wanted sex and females who wanted protection – and had to rely on their nubility to get it.)