(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.
Sleek
Definition:
(superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
(superl.) Not rough or harsh.
(adv.) With ease and dexterity.
(n.) That which makes smooth; varnish.
(v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
(2) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
(3) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(4) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
(5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
(6) Grilled meats ( txuleta means chop) are where he excels, but at the sleek interior bar you can also order flawlessly presented pintxos of seasonal produce.
(7) The issue with existing batteries is that they suck,” Elon Musk , chief executive of Tesla, said in May at the launch of the Powerwall , a sleek new battery.
(8) In a whir of lycra and straining calf muscles, the sleek, bent bodies flashed past, urged on by the crowds.
(9) These two saunas both boast the sleek, angular lines of Nordic architecture, and are built from ecologically friendly materials.
(10) After a false start in 2006 with a bill that was killed by parliament for being too weak, he launched a sleek new vehicle – “Turning the Corner” – in March 2007, with new emissions targets for each sector of the economy, crucially including oil and gas.
(11) Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor' Read more On Saturday evening, with their sleek humanoid robot DRC-Hubo, a team of roboticists and engineers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, won $2m from the R&D arm of the US defense department, Darpa, by outperforming 24 other robots in a simulated nuclear reactor.
(12) Photograph: Joha Gronvall In search of other public saunas in Helsinki I visited Kulttuurisauna , a sleek, modernist eco-sauna designed in 2013 by Tuomas Toivonen and Nene Tsuboi in the heart of the Merihaka district; and then to the other extreme, the tiny, self-service Sompasauna shacks on the banks of the Gulf Of Finland in the so-called Freezone of Sompasaari (a kind of Mad Max hinterland full of junk yards and disused buildings covered in graffiti).
(13) The Model 3 looks like a shorter version of the Model S, with a similar sleek profile, elongated hood and a panoramic glass roof.
(14) Just like iPhones and Kindles before it, the stylish and sleek iPad is becoming increasingly easy to spot in subway cars or on park benches across New York.
(15) Academics respond: Brexit would weaken UK university research and funding Read more “Certainly, few people here thought the outcome would have any major impact on their work,” said Vandevyver, a Belgian, sitting in a conference room on the school’s sleek, modernist campus on the city outskirts.
(16) The negative publicity - at odds with the company's sleek designs and 'Just Do It' slogan - has seen the sales of its trainers plummet.
(17) I’m staying at Hossan Lomakeskus , with accommodation in sleek wooden huts with floor-to-ceiling windows and uninterrupted views of Hossa lake.
(18) They chanted slogans and held up signs as a small, select group of people arrived in sleek sports cars and were ushered inside the relatively modest residence where the billionaire lives with his wife, Priscilla Chan.
(19) While most British Muslims can relate to having to buy a few essentials before Ramadan – dates, new hijabs, a sleek new abaya – for the vast majority of us, who are, to say the least, very unlikely to have a Harrods Rewards card, the idea of going on a vast Ramadan shopping spree is an alien concept.
(20) Take the sleek blue tram to rue Achard and, as you get off, you find yourself facing a squat terrace of abandoned houses.