(v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(2) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
(3) It's hardly an enticing prospect for would-be adopters, who are repeatedly told that they stand a far better chance of being matched if they're prepared to take on a child who is disabled, has emotional or developmental needs, is in a sibling group, or is older (and therefore more likely to have endured repeated trauma and multiple placements).
(4) The zesty, citrus whiff of oranges freshens up the January kitchen, drawing a line under heavy celebratory food, and lighting up the virtuous, but enticing path to a lighter, healthier diet.
(5) In the real world the situation must be far more complex as will become evident but as a concept the avoidance of Ca2+ overloading is enticing.
(6) "As Android and Apple tear each other apart, Microsoft has been waiting in the wings and is in a very good position to move in and entice users to switch from Android to Microsoft, as we have already seen that user loyalty is low."
(7) While attention has focused on the enticing possibility of a bid for the papers from established newspaper owners such as Express Newspapers boss Richard Desmond, News Corporation mogul Rupert Murdoch and Daily Mail & General Trust, analysts and bankers believe a City-backed bid is far more likely.
(8) The picture window in the upper floor lobby frames a view of enticing blue sea.
(9) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
(10) Athens has lowered the minimum monthly wage for those under 25 years by 32% to about €500 to entice hiring.
(11) Prospects that are both enticing and simple, the latter encapsulated his response.
(12) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
(13) Wonga has come in for criticism from Creasy and other opponents of high-cost lenders, which entice consumers with large advertising budgets spent on extensive TV, press and outdoor campaigns.
(14) Until we are mathematically gone, I will believe.” Tottenham’s Son Heung-min grabs late winner after Watford red card Read more He also said he will do his utmost to entice reinforcements during the January transfer window, but admits that the club’s predicament complicates recruitment.
(15) Early signs were encouraging: Labour's controversial ID card scheme was scrapped and the enticingly titled protection of freedoms bill was conceived.
(16) The real solution is "freemium": you offer a lot to lots of people for free (with ads), but you entice those at the high end with paid-for stuff.
(17) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
(18) At least one half of the coalition might find such a prospect enticing.
(19) Letta was parachuted into power last April after Pier Luigi Bersani, the then PD leader, failed to entice Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment movement into a coalition.
(20) The animal, called Rat Hole, even refused to co-operate when the riders attempted to entice him back to his pen in what was described as a bovine removal exercise.
Tice
Definition:
(v. t.) To entice.
(n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) The left kidney was then infused weekly for six weeks with two ampules of BCG (Tice strain) dissolved in 75 cc of saline.
(2) Tice was working for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other media outlets when he was kidnapped.
(3) Russ Tice and Thomas Drake, two whistleblowers that used to work for the NSA, took to the stage after the credits rolled.
(4) The BCG Tice introduced aerogenically or subcutaniously into normal mice induced degrees of antituberculous resistance equivalent to those seen earlier in intravenously infected mice.
(5) Bacilli of the Connaught, Pasteur, Phipps, and Tice strains multiplied appreciably in the lungs and disseminated into the spleen In contrast, BCG Birkhaug and Glaxo strains did not replicate in the lungs or spread to the spleen.
(6) Intravesical instillations of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin were given to 33 patients with biopsy proved carcinoma in situ.
(7) Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin (1 vial, 2 to 8 times 10(8) organisms in 60 cc saline) was instilled intravesically without cutaneous inoculation.
(8) "I figured it would probably be about 2015" before the NSA had "the computer capacity … to collect all digital communications word for word," Tice said.
(9) Intravenous administration of a lyphilized preparation of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG-Tice) into mice significantly protected these animals from infection with Schistosoma mansoni.
(10) Growing colonies of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Tice and Glaxo substrains, and freshly ball milled and freeze-dried Tice BCG vaccines were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by light microscopy after cytochemical staining.
(11) We evaluated 139 patients with superficial bladder cancer (Stages Ta, Tl, and TIS) and treated them with either intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin, Tice strain (BCG), or doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin [ADR]) in a nonrandomized, multicenter study.
(12) BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, Tice strain, caused a threefold increase in spleen weight of normal animals and a fourfold increase in spleen weight of sarcoma-bearing mice.
(13) American journalist Austin Tice went missing from Syria in August 2012 and is believed to be held by Isis rival al-Nusra Front, according to the Associated Press.
(14) An expansion of the principles established in Summers v. Tice and Ybarra v. Spangard provide a logical and rational means for the courts to address products liability issues in cases involving multiple and unnamed defendants.
(15) In 2 cases epididymo-orchitis, indistinguishable from a testicular tumor, developed as a late (15 and 34 months, respectively) complication following use of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin for treatment of superficial bladder carcinoma.
(16) Experimental vaccines from the Trudeau Mycobacterial Collection, stored as frozen liquid suspensions, showed a less marked variation in physical properties; here too, the Pasteur strain was superior to two other Trudeau preparations examined (Tice and Phipps).
(17) A substrain of Mycobacterium kansasii, designated the "high-binding strain," was found to bind FN more readily (P less than 0.05) in in vitro studies, when compared to commercially available substrains of BCG (Tice, Connaught, and Armand Frappier).
(18) The cytostatic activity of five Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) strains (Pasteur, Evans, Tice, RIVM and Connaught) on human transitional cell cancer T24 cells was examined.
(19) The palmitic acid methyl ester peak area determined by gas chromatography was directly proportional to the wet weight of freshly grown Tice-, Pasteur-, and Glaxo-substrain BCG, as well as the dry weight of the ampoule contents after removal of soluble material.
(20) All such therapy was discontinued in these survivors at 36 months after diagnosis and they were given monthly inoculations of BCG of the Tice strain by tine technique.