How to Use attract in a Sentence
attract
verb
- The chance to travel around the world attracted me to a career as a flight attendant.
- The bird's colorful feathers are used to attract a mate.
- The scent will attract certain insects.
- Her bright blue eyes attracted me.
- The museum attracts visitors from all over the world.
- Certain insects are attracted by the scent.
- The company has a difficult time attracting good employees because of its poor pay and benefits.
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Bryant hopes to attract more donors in the coming year.
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Lilly Price,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2023
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But he isn’t attracted to her and hopes to throw her into the arms of his pal.
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Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 May 2024
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But she was attracted to the show’s ambition and the role’s depth.
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Karen Heller,
Washington Post,
25 Mar. 2023
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But who you’re attracted to — the who — is the most important thing.
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Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Aug. 2023
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Food attracts stink bugs in your house just like other pests.
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Hadley Mendelsohn,
House Beautiful,
7 July 2023
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The Voie Verte, one of the oldest greenways in France, attracts many cyclists.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2023
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The goal for the park has always been to attract people to the city’s downtown, which was long home to offices, Ladd said.
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Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2024
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All that trash used to sit on the street out of containers for hours, attracting rats.
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Chantelle Lee,
TIME,
15 May 2024
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Click here to read more about the way campaigns are leaning on Google and news to attract voters.
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Max Thornberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
16 Aug. 2024
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The restaurant is one of the most famous in the country, attracting hordes of tourists and locals alike.
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Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
15 May 2024
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Expect his food and drinks to attract many as people come from far and wide to Eden Roc for its Art Week events.
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Essence,
4 Dec. 2023
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For starters, what attracts you to these down-on-their-luck everymen?
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Marlow Stern,
Rolling Stone,
5 Dec. 2023
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The tax credits are designed to bring prices down and attract more buyers.
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Tom Krisher and Fatima Hussein,
Detroit Free Press,
31 Mar. 2023
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And all he's done is now give someone else a chance to attract that vote in Iowa and South Carolina.
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Jacob Rosen, Aaron Navarro,
CBS News,
22 Sep. 2023
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That’s not the kind of thing that’s going to attract people for 100 hours of viewership on the platform.
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Lesley Goldberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2023
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The element that attracts the most attention is, without a doubt, the footwear.
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Arancha Gamo,
Glamour,
29 Dec. 2024
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What attracted me to this whole world was the intimacy of that tragedy.
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Beatrice Verhoeven,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 June 2023
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Rivers and deep snows that attract tourists and create jobs in rural areas.
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Lydia Depillis,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2023
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That’s too bad, both for the historical record and for the new buyers of Barbie that the film’s success will attract.
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Alexandra Lange,
The New Yorker,
2 Aug. 2023
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It’s a bustling area where stops such as CVS and Target attract a large and diverse group of pedestrians.
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Karina Elwood,
Washington Post,
4 Feb. 2023
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Daum hopes telling that story will attract more people to the state and drive economic growth.
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Erica E. Phillips,
Hartford Courant,
1 Feb. 2023
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The honeydew—a sweet, clear liquid the lanternflies excrete as waste—attracts ants, wasps, and bees, which like to eat it.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Country Living,
20 June 2023
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Companies lacking this in-house expertise often face steep costs, either through high salaries to attract specialists or hefty consultancy fees.
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Agur Jõgi,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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